Rockdale County toddler in serious condition after being shot in the head
By Eric Perry and FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team
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ROCKDALE COUNTY, Ga. - Investigators in Rockdale County are trying to determine what led to the shooting of a toddler on Thursday afternoon. The young child was recovering Friday from that gunshot wound.
It happened at an apartment located on Rock Mont Circle a little before 4 p.m. The Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office said deputies arrived at the home to find a 2-year-old boy shot in the head. The young child was rushed to an area hospital in serious condition.
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CONYERS â The DeKalb County Sheriffâs Office Fugitive Unit arrested two murder suspects on Dec. 24, including one in Conyers.
DeKalb Sheriffâs investigators worked with the Rockdale County Sheriffâs Office to arrest 23-year-old Courtney Evette Terrell of Lithonia at a Conyers residence on a charge of murder.
The arrest warrant alleges that Terrell caused the death of Shamsiddin Echols on Oct. 24 at a convenience store on Wesley Chapel Road in Decatur.
In a separate operation, DeKalb investigators, along with the U.S. Marshals Office, arrested Gerald Jerome Clark, 41, of Stone Mountain, on a charge of murder in the death of an unidentified woman on Sept. 26 at a Fieldgreen Drive residence in Stone Mountain. The arrest warrant alleges that Clark shot the victim several times and locked her in the trunk of a vehicle which he set on fire.