By DOUG NURSE
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Danielle Brown said the two older-looking teenagers stood over her Wednesday night, yelling and demanding money, when she saw the young-looking teen standing beside the dark Toyota.
He was watching, not speaking.
One teen ran to her car, where her 1- and 3-year-old sons sat wide-eyed, and grabbed her purse, Brown said. The three teens climbed into the Toyota and sped off. The silent one looked out the back window, a strange look on his face.
Minutes later, after a brief chase by Alpharetta police, the driver lost control of the car and crashed, injuring two of the youths.
The watcher was killed. He was identified late Thursday as 19-year-old Marcus Mahomes of Stone Mountain.
“Wow,” Brown said Thursday. “We made eye contact. I’m sad. If they hadn’t been out doing this, this wouldn’t be the outcome, but I hate that he got killed.”
Mahomes died of head injuries, according to the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office.
The other two, Montreal Devon Gray, 19, and Jaree Devon Beatles, 17, both of Decatur, are refusing to cooperate, police said. They are under guard at North Fulton Regional Hospital in Roswell, awaiting charges of armed robbery as well as charges related to the death.
About 10 p.m. Wednesday, Brown had just arrived at the Rosemont apartments in Roswell after picking up her boys from day care. She went to the mailbox when someone hit her from behind, knocking her down.
Two men yelled at her, demanding money, and one had his hand in his pocket as if he had gun, she said.
Minutes later, Roswell officers received a call saying two men jumped and robbed a man at nearby Eagle Crest Village apartments. They fled in a dark Toyota Camry.
An undercover officer, in the neighborhood as a part of an effort to reduce crime there, spotted the vehicle and started tailing it. Alpharetta police joined the chase. While speeding up North Point Parkway near Preston Ridge Road, the driver lost control of the car on a curve and rolled it.
The car was stolen June 9 from a Decatur man who left the car running as he went back inside his home for something. Alpharetta and Roswell police would not disclose whether they believe the men are suspects in other crimes, nor would they disclose what was recovered in the car.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Danielle Brown said the two older-looking teenagers stood over her Wednesday night, yelling and demanding money, when she saw the young-looking teen standing beside the dark Toyota.
He was watching, not speaking.
One teen ran to her car, where her 1- and 3-year-old sons sat wide-eyed, and grabbed her purse, Brown said. The three teens climbed into the Toyota and sped off. The silent one looked out the back window, a strange look on his face.
Minutes later, after a brief chase by Alpharetta police, the driver lost control of the car and crashed, injuring two of the youths.
The watcher was killed. He was identified late Thursday as 19-year-old Marcus Mahomes of Stone Mountain.
“Wow,” Brown said Thursday. “We made eye contact. I’m sad. If they hadn’t been out doing this, this wouldn’t be the outcome, but I hate that he got killed.”
Mahomes died of head injuries, according to the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office.
The other two, Montreal Devon Gray, 19, and Jaree Devon Beatles, 17, both of Decatur, are refusing to cooperate, police said. They are under guard at North Fulton Regional Hospital in Roswell, awaiting charges of armed robbery as well as charges related to the death.
About 10 p.m. Wednesday, Brown had just arrived at the Rosemont apartments in Roswell after picking up her boys from day care. She went to the mailbox when someone hit her from behind, knocking her down.
Two men yelled at her, demanding money, and one had his hand in his pocket as if he had gun, she said.
Minutes later, Roswell officers received a call saying two men jumped and robbed a man at nearby Eagle Crest Village apartments. They fled in a dark Toyota Camry.
An undercover officer, in the neighborhood as a part of an effort to reduce crime there, spotted the vehicle and started tailing it. Alpharetta police joined the chase. While speeding up North Point Parkway near Preston Ridge Road, the driver lost control of the car on a curve and rolled it.
The car was stolen June 9 from a Decatur man who left the car running as he went back inside his home for something. Alpharetta and Roswell police would not disclose whether they believe the men are suspects in other crimes, nor would they disclose what was recovered in the car.
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