A woman arrested in connection with a shooting death near Stone Mountain last month has been released from jail, with the charges against her dropped.
Destiny McDuffie, 21, was arrested with three men after Donovan Austin was shot at with two AK-47s and a .40-cal handgun. The weapons were fired at least 40 times, killing Austin and grazing the leg of another man. A third victim was unharmed.
At McDuffie's preliminary hearing in DeKalb County Magistrate Court on Tuesday, witnesses made it clear that McDuffie didn't match the description of the suspects, said her attorney, Max Hirsh of Decatur.
"They said it was four men, and Destiny is clearly a woman," he said. "She never should have been arrested."
The shooting happened around 3:45 a.m. on March 7 in the parking lot of the Creekside Corner Apartments in the 6300 block of Turnberry Place.
The cases against two of the other suspects -- Marquette Mackie and Jacques Thornton -- were bound over to Superior Court at Wednesday's hearing. The fourth suspect, Sentelle Williams, is still awaiting a preliminary hearing.
Police have said the shooting stemmed from an argument at a strip club earlier that evening. The people in the fight all knew each other, investigators said.
Austin and another man returned from the club to the apartments. The others followed and confronted them in the parking lot, police said.
Authorities say multiple shots were fired, and the suspected gunmen ran off. The injured men were taken to an area hospital, where Austin later died.
DeKalb and Gwinnett authorities arrested McDuffie in Lawrenceville. She was charged with murder, three counts of aggravated assault and three counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
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