A 16-year-old girl was shot to death in a drive-by and a 13-year-old boy wounded Thursday night in Macon.
The shootings happened shortly before 8:20 p.m. near a home at 2008 Cedar Ave. near Moseley Avenue, according to Macon police.
Officers responded to the scene after getting a 911 call about shots fired. They found the two teens shot, police spokeswoman Ms. Jami Gaudet said.
“The female teen was standing outside of a house with several other people at the time the shots were fired,” Ms. Gaudet said. “The 13 year-old male was in a vehicle traveling down Moseley Avenue with a relative when he was struck.”
The boy was transported to the hospital with non life-threatening gunshot wound to the head. But the girl died later from her injuries, Ms. Gaudet said.
Bibb County Coroner Mr. Leon Jones identified the girl as Alyssa Jackson, a student of Southwest High School.
She died about 20 minutes after being shot in the lower back at the Medical Center of Central Georgia, Mr. Jones said.
Prosecutor John Regan said two witnesses have identified Mintz, an alleged member of the Bloomfield Crips street gang, as one of two people who fired shots on Nov. 21, 2013, when Jackson was shot.
Jackson was shot while talking with Damion Bernard “Little Petey” Clayton on Cedar Avenue. Clayton, an alleged member of the rival 10-12 gang, was the alleged intended target.
Police have said then-13-year-old Charleston “Brother” Burnett III., was grazed on the head by a bullet while traveling in a vehicle on Moseley Avenue. He survived.
Clayton was killed months later, Feb. 22, 2014, at the Macon Little League ball field on Anthony Road, about a month after Mintz’s Jan. 17, 2014, arrest.
Mintz was 16 when he was arrested.
A Macon man pleaded guilty to murder Monday in the 2013 fatal shooting of 16-year-old Alyssa Jackson.
Dontavius “Man Man” Mintz, 18, entered his plea as part of an agreement with prosecutors that he will “truthfully” testify in a pending case in exchange for a recommended sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole.
He pleaded guilty, standing before a judge in Bibb County Superior Court on Monday afternoon, but was not sentenced.
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