It only took 21 minutes for an alleged gang member to be found guilty on 43 counts, including murder, in connection with the 2016 deaths of two children.
Prosecutors said Jamon Bynum, who also goes by Mondo, was one of nine alleged gang members indicted in 2018, about a year-and-a-half after the murders of the Jonesboro youths. The suspects were allegedly a part of the Crips gang.
Tatiyana and Daveon Coates, ages 11 and 15, were shot and killed in 2016.
The siblings were shot inside a house on Libby Lane in the Marlborough subdivision in Clayton County.
Police said intruders tried to force their way inside the home overnight while Tatiyana, Daveon and several other children, ages 6 to 13, were inside. Investigators said one of the children was the one to make the call to police.
When officers arrived at the home, that's when they found the two teens. The other children at home at the time of the incident were not harmed.
Police said Tatiyana and Daveon's parents were not at the home where the fatal shooting happened.
The children had no way of knowing about the violence coming their way.
Clayton County officials told 11Alive last year that several gang members, according to police, were looking for a 15-year-old boy who allegedly stole guns from the gang.
Months after the shooting, one of the suspects, Michael Desean White, started a new life as a paraprofessional with DeKalb County schools and later became a teacher. He was removed from his position until officials results of the investigation were released.
As for Bynum, prosecutors said he took the stand in the trial and testified he traveled to Libby Lane in a vehicle with co-defendants Devin “Trouble” Dunson and Jason “Skywalker” Currie. He said they entered the home with what was determined to be one of the murder weapons and claimed White took the gun from his hands inside the home and went to a Daveon's bedroom.
He testified White gave him back the gun which he dropped during a shootout in Tennessee the following day.
According to the Clayton County District Attorney's Office, Bynum was found guilty on all charges, which included two counts of malice murder, felony murder, home invasion, cruelty to children, violation to street gang terrorism and prevention act, and more.
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