Police have arrested and charged a 16-year-old with the murder of two cousins after a car crash in Forest Park earlier this month
FOREST PARK, Ga. —
Police have arrested and charged a 16-year-old with the murder of two cousins
after a car crash in Forest Park earlier this month.
The crash happened
on Nov. 5 on Bartlett Road near Watts Road. According to the investigation,
officers found two men who had been shot to death inside one of the cars.
Police identified the victims as 23-year-old Edwin Dominguez and 21-year-old
Jonathan Bustamante Zuniga.
Authorities told
Channel 2 Action News that the 16-year-old ran away after the shooting.
Police have not
identified the 16-year-old. The teen was taken to the Department of Juvenile
Justice. Police will continue to investigate.
Family members
identified Dominguez and Zuniga as cousins. They set up a GoFundMe to raise
money for funeral expenses.
“We are all
devastated by the tragedy that took the lives of 2 loved ones,” family members
wrote on GoFundMe. “They were taken from us at such a young age. They had a
life full of ambitious goals ahead of them. If you knew them, you would know
how smart, humble, and hard-working young men they were.”
Accident becomes
deadly after shots fired into vehicle, killing 2, metro Atlanta police say The
police chief there tells us the crash happened this afternoon on Bartlett Road
near Watts Road and that the shooter took off on foot.
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