The 14-year-old boy who was killed when he tried to rob an Atlanta police recruit with a shotgun this weekend also was being sought by police in DeKalb County for an armed robbery at a synagogue.

DeKalb County police were searching for Demario Jackson of Atlanta for allegedly breaking into Ner Hamizrah Synagogue on Lavista Road with a friend Jan. 31 and robbing a congregation member at gunpoint, said Mikki Jones, spokeswoman for the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office.

On Thursday, DeKalb fugitive squad members took out warrants charging Jackson and another minor, whose name has been withheld by police, with armed robbery and burglary, Jones said. Atlanta police soon helped DeKalb find and arrest the unnamed suspect, who was in Atlanta, but Jackson remained at large.

On Saturday, Jackson walked up to a man sitting in a car typing on a laptop at a Forest Park apartment complex and tried to rob him of the computer early Saturday morning, Forest Park police said. The man turned out to be police recruit Mohamadreza Rashad, who was formerly in the Marine Corps. Rashad, who lives at the Parkside Crossing apartment complex on Jonesboro Road, pulled his handgun and fired, killing the teen, Forest Park police Maj. Chris Matson said.

Inside Jackson's pockets, police found keys to a gray 2006 Pontiac G6 reported stolen in December from the owner's East Point driveway, Matson said. The teen's suspected lookout ran from the area and has not been identified. Forest Park police officials have said the shooting seems to be self-defense, but their investigation is ongoing.

A woman who identified herself as the teen's mother said Monday she wasn't at the scene when her son was killed and she didn't know what happened and couldn't talk anymore. A man later reached at the same home, on Fisher Road in Atlanta, also declined to comment.