“You shot and killed a baby,†Bottoms said Sunday evening at a news conference, speaking to the young girl’s killers, who have yet to be identified or arrested.
Bottoms’s emotional plea came one day after Secoriea Turner, 8, was fatally injured Saturday night not far from a Wendy’s restaurant that has become the site of protests after an Atlanta police officer shot and killed Brooks, a black man, there on June 12.
Former Atlanta officer who shot Rayshard Brooks charged with murder, other offenses.
But Bottoms stressed Sunday that police officers weren’t at fault for the recent spate of shootings that have left more than 20 people injured and several dead, including Secoriea.
Shortly after Sunday’s news conference, one person was killed and at least two others were injured in another shooting near the restaurant, WXIA reported.
JUST IN: We just got these photos of 8-year-old Secoriea Turner, who was killed last night near the Wendy's where Rayshard Brooks died: https://t.co/U2niKwoxXF pic.twitter.com/GI9zpSlbLl.
Police reportedly cleared the area last month, one day after Brooks’s June 23 funeral, but Bottoms said Sunday that she received word that the barriers were back up roughly an hour before she was informed of Secoriea’s death.
The car was then “confronted by a group of armed individuals who had blocked the entrance,†interim police chief Rodney Bryant said during Sunday’s news conference.
“She died in my arms,†Secoriea’s mother, Charmaine Turner, tearfully told reporters Sunday before she broke down crying and was led out of the news conference by family members.
Officials and Secoriea’s relatives have implored the public to help identify the people involved, who have only been described by police as “a group of black males.†One of the shooters was believed to have been wearing “all black, dressed like a bounty hunter,†while the second was seen in a white T-shirt.
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