Police charge suspect in slaying of 8-year-old Atlanta girl

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Police charge suspect in slaying of 8-year-old Atlanta girl

Associated Press | Wednesday, July 15, 2020 12:08 p.m.

Charmaine Turner prepares to enter a viewing Tuesday her for 8-year-old daughter Secoriea Turner, who was fatally shot in Atlanta on July 4th near the Wendy’s site where Rayshard Brooks was killed the previous month in South Fulton, Ga.

ATLANTA — A teen suspect has been charged with felony murder and aggravated assault in the shooting that killed an 8-year-old Atlanta girl near the site of an earlier police shooting, police said Wednesday.

Police issued warrants a day earlier for 19-year-old Julian Conley in the slaying of Secoriea Turner, police spokesman Anthony Grant said.

Conley’s attorney, Jackie Patterson, said Conley was peacefully protesting and witnessed the shooting but did not open fire himself.

Secoriea was fatally shot on the Fourth of July while riding in an SUV with her mother and another adult near the Wendy’s restaurant where Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man, was killed by a white police officer on June 12.

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