$10,000 Award For Anyone With Info In 8 Year Old's Shooting

DEKALB COUNTY, GA — The DeKalb County Government, along with Crime Stoppers, is offering a $10,000 reward for details leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for shooting an eight-year-old boy and a seventeen-year-old male.

On July 24, the DeKalb County Police Department was dispatched to Eastwyck Village Townhomes near Candler Road to investigate a possible shooting. Police found the boy with a gunshot wound to his shoulder and the teen suffering from a grazed wound to the leg.

Investigators identified and arrested the driver of a stolen light grayish blue Subaru SUV that was involved in the incident; however, other suspects that were involved in the shooting have not been identified.

Anyone with information is urged to call DeKalb County PD Homicide Unit at 770-724-7850 or Crime Stoppers at 404-577-TIPS (8477).