3 Atlanta Teens Killed Over Weekend
Tim Eberly and Ralph Ellis reported in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on November 09, 2008 that the trend of violent crimes in Atlanta in recent weeks has continued with three shootings over the weekend that ended the lives of three teenagers. All these young lives were taken early the morning of November 9th. The first youth to be killed was Joshua Richards, a 17 year old senior at Riverdale High School. Richards was in the backseat of a vehicle at a parking lot for a Jonesboro nightclub when he was shot to death. Richards was one of 10 children and was remembered as the peacekeeper of the family according to a family friend Vivian Maiden. “He had a way of making jokes and calming down the situations,” she said. As shortstop for Riverdale’s varsity baseball team he aspired to earn a scholarship to play college ball.
Details of what led up to the shooting are that Richards and his friends had stopped by the movies before going to the south Atlanta club. Inside the movie theater Richards was confronted by other young men who wanted to fight. Upon exiting the theater they were followed and shot while Richards sat in the back seat of a Jeep. Two of his friends riding in the auto were injured. Richards death is the second Riverdale High death in the same amount of weeks, prompting a crisis intervention team being dispatched to the school.
The other deaths happened on the southbound I-85 near Buford Highway when Blanca Badillo, 17 and Policarpo Luviano, 18 were shot while driving. Details were still being investigated for this horrific violent crime in Georgia.
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