Youth accused in bank robbery out of jail

But Broom, 18, of Lithonia, was no longer listed as an inmate.

His father, also named Glenn Broom, issued a statement Friday saying that justice had prevailed, that his son was home safe and that the family would "continue to pray for the other teens, the mother and their families in this unfortunate life-changing ordeal."

At a hearing in a Gwinnett County court Thursday, a judge ruled there was enough evidence for the armed robbery cases to move forward against all of the suspects, except Broom, according to a report by wsbtv.com.

Simmons allegedly picked the students up from Stephenson High School in DeKalb County Friday and took them to a Wells Fargo for a robbery.

"She basically told them that they were going to commit a bank robbery," said Lilburn police Detective Rob Kirschner, according to the wsbtv.com report.

Officers captured the four suspects near Clarkston when they crashed after a high-speed chase.

At Thursday's hearing, Broom's attorney argued that her client did not know where he was being taken and said the teen did not go inside the bank with the others.

Police said previously that one of the four suspects had remained in the getaway vehicle.

Broom was initially charged with armed robbery, but now faces a misdemeanor charge of tampering with evidence because, police said, he may have tossed BB guns used during the robbery out of the car during the high-speed chase, according to the wsbtv.com report.

"I think he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time," Broom's uncle, Ricky Spearman told Channel 2 Action News after the hearing. "He assumed he was going to school and was re-routed to something else, so just a bad time," he said.

Broom's father said Friday that the family was trying to regain "some type of normalcy." He asked the media to give his family privacy and added: "thank God my son is alive and has been given a chance to tell his side and to clear his name."