Testimony showed that Slaton claimed to have called friends to come retrieve him from the Columbia Forest apartments, where he feared an armed rival might kill him. Prosecutors originally sought to have Slaton testify against his would-be co-defendants, court officials said, but he chose to stand trial before DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Gail C. The juvenile is being held in the DeKalb County Juvenile Detention Center, while the others remain in DeKalb County jail, court officials said. Grimes, 20, Kyree Oshay Brantley, 19, and a 16-year-old juvenile - are named with Slaton in the murder indictment.Īll are awaiting trial. Lingering tensions from the dispute – which at one point led to someone’s tires being slashed shortly before the shooting – and the pending trial for Slaton sparked a brawl in January in the hallway outside a DeKalb County courtroom.įorte was among the seven people arrested in that fight.įive other alleged gang members - Antoine “Nuk” Willis, 20, Brandon Matthew Reed, 27, Jaqwanta J. “Someone dead over something stupid – a gun that didn't belong to either of them.” “What we have here is what we often have,” DeKalb Assistant District Attorney Tamara Ross told the jury in her closing arguments late Thursday afternoon. 29, 2011, firing 23 shots into a crowd of teens to settle a dispute over an alleged stolen gun. Prosecutors said that at his behest, Slaton’s fellow gang members came to the Columbia Forest apartments on the night of Jan.
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