Photo: ED JONES / Getty Images
Authorities in Clayton County, Georgia, are investigating a shooting that left a young man from 12 years dead in a barbershop on Saturday afternoon.
Police were alerted to the shooting on the block 5400 of River Station Boulevard on Saturday around 4: 00 in the afternoon. The search extended to West Fayetteville Road at River Station Plaza, officials said.
Officials announced that there was one person deceased and a crime scene team with multiple patrols outside the barbershop.
The victim was identified as Anthony ‘China’ McClain. He was a hairdresser and co-owner of the barbershop with his mother.
“I was standing outside the barber shop, and there was some commotion, something happened and a stray bullet killed him, that’s what happened”
, his cousin LaShawn Hood said.
The teen’s cousin recalled the moment someone shot and killed McClain. “He was a young man of 17 years old who went to the school, homeschooled and went to college and got his master barber license, new business owner”, he said. “Just a motivated kid.”
Hood described the young man as a teenager who loved to his parents and was very family oriented . “He was a very good boy.”
So far the authorities are still investigating of the incident and have limited themselves to giving details of what happened. No arrests have been made so far.
Also read:
- Eight-year-old boy in Wisconsin dies after his mother strangled him
- Two men are charged with murdering an off-duty Texas police officer in a grocery parking lot
- Child of dies years old, victim of a shooting in Brooklyn, the police are in search of the suspect