Douglasville police said Thursday that eight more suspects have been arrested in connection with a gang-related pool shooting that left two 16-year-olds injured in July, bringing the total number of arrests in the case to 10.
Six of those suspects are juveniles, but Douglas County District Attorney Ryan Leonard plans to try them as adults, police said.
The shooting occurred the afternoon of July 23 inside the Sweetwater subdivision, Douglasville police Maj. J.R. Davidson said. Officers arrived to find two teenagers shot, one in the leg and the other in the face.
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The altercation began when two groups with gang associations met at the pool to fight, police said Thursday. Five of the suspects were from Cobb County and the other five were from Douglas County, police said.
“During the fight, one of the suspects pulled out a gun and fired at least 10 rounds, two of which struck the victims,” Douglasville police said in a Facebook post. “At the time of the shooting, there were four uninvolved victims, two of whom (were) under the age of 10.”
Most of the suspects fled the pool by the time officers arrived, but the shooting was captured on surveillance cameras, police said previously.
Dante Bland, 17, and Jeremiah Stanton, 18, were arrested last month.
Credit: Douglas County Sheriff's Office
Credit: Douglas County Sheriff's Office
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The other two adults charged in the case are 17-year-old Deshawn Dunn and 21-year-old Anthony Padilla, Davidson said.
Everyone involved, including the juveniles, have been charged with two counts of aggravated battery, nine counts of aggravated assault, participation in gang activity, earning and maintaining gang status, affray, and reckless conduct.
The district attorney’s office is trying to transfer all six juvenile cases to Superior Court.
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