‘All I can say is I’m heartbroken’: Family remembers 18-year-old shot, killed in Kroger parking lot – WSB-TV Channel 2

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HENRY COUNTY, Ga. — The sufferer’s household instructed Channel 2 Motion Information they do not know why their cherished one was focused in a Kroger parking lot.

Henry County police have recognized the accused shooter as 18-year-old Omarion Thomas.

Household and mates of 18-year-old Nikeem Hargrove obtained emotional Saturday evening as they gathered within the Ellenwood Kroger car parking zone for a candlelight vigil to rejoice the lifetime of a teen who had simply graduated from highschool in spring.

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“I’m numb. In disbelief. I’m mad. I’m indignant!” Hargrove’s aunt, Angela Cooley instructed Channel 2′s Michael Seiden.

Simply toes from the candle gentle gathering, there have been boarded-up home windows that reminds the household of the chaos that unfolded there on Friday evening.

Police say it was round 8 p.m. when a battle broke out inside the shop after which spilled into the car parking zone.

As soon as outdoors, investigators stated, weapons had been pulled and bullets began flying. When officers arrived, they discovered Hargrove fatally wounded.

“Nikeem was someone that didn’t mess with no one. Nikeem was at all times comfortable, you by no means see him mad,” his sister, Nikirah Kennedy stated.

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On Saturday afternoon, police introduced the arrest of the suspected teen shooter, 18-year-old Omarion Thomas.

The sufferer’s household instructed us they’d by no means heard that identify till Saturday.

“All I can say is I’m heartbroken,” Latange Smith, Hargrove’s mom, stated.

A 2022 graduate of DeKalb County’s Martin Luther King Jr. highschool, Hargrove had been working laborious, making ready to take his actual property examination, when mindless gun violence destroyed his goals.

An worker instructed Channel 2 Motion Information the shop will reopen on Sunday. Within the meantime, this household is now pressured to plan a funeral.

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