Four members of the Bloods street gang were indicted Monday on charges that they killed a witness who saw them fatally shoot an innocent bystander, a shooting that was soon followed by a retaliatory attack that left a baby dead.
A witness said numerous people were in a garden apartment watching the Floyd Mayweather championship fight on May 3, drinking, socializing and spilling outside into a grassy area at the corner of the building.
Trouble started when uninvited guests arrived at the Stone Mountain apartment complex.
According to the 13-count indictment, 17-year-old Alexis Malone got in a fight with another young woman so Kyla Dixon called gang members to back up Malone.
According to authorities three men whom Dixon called were Oslushla Smith, 19, called Budda or Boo; Cutrez Johnson, 16; or “Lil Red,” and Kemontay Cullins, 18. During an exchange of gunfire, Michael Phillip, who was not armed, was shot and killed.
Prosecutors say over the next few days Smith began to worry that the 17-year-old Malone would tell police what happened. So on May 9, the three men lured Malone and Dixon to a wooded area.
They allegedly planned to attack both women but only Malone was killed. A rock was used to beat her about the head.
The next day, police received a tip that they could find a body on Agape Way in DeKalb. It was Malone.
Five hours after the anonymous tip was made, men with their faces covered with bandannas kicked in the back door of the home on To Lani Farm Road. Three terrified women inside grabbed the 9-month-old boy, ran upstairs and tried to lock themselves into a bathroom, but the gunmen kicked it in and fired at them multiple times.
The three women were wounded and the baby was killed. The baby was Johnson’s and Smith’s nephew.
Cullins was arrested hours after Malone's body was found. Brothers Johnson and Smith, were taken into custody after an eight-hour SWAT stand-off in southwest Atlanta. Dixon surrendered to police.
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