The kid looked like Urkel, TV’s famous nerd.

But, at his core, he was a gangsta, a rootless and cold youth with murder in his heart. When two young men ended up dead in a Cobb County park, shot to death execution style, police quickly found Jaydon Reid hurrying away. He was 14.

It quickly became apparent that Jaydon was the gunman. Or, more correctly, the gunboy. The kid was in awe of gang members. In fact, he dreamed of being one.

As Reid put it on social media, "In my whole life all I wanted to do is kill someone."

The guys he killed were low-level pot dealers who kind of took him under their wing. Suddenly, he turned on them.

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The renovation of Jekyll Island's Great Dunes golf course includes nine holes designed by Walter Travis in the 1920s for the members of the Jekyll Island Club. Several holes that were part of the original layout where located along the beach and were bulldozed in the 1950s.(Photo by Austin Kaseman)

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