FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. – The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office has confirmed that the teenager shot in his home on Thanksgiving Day has died.
On Nov. 23, Thanksgiving Day, the Forsyth County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a 911 call just before 8 p.m., where a person was shot inside a house in the 1200 Block of Wondering Way in southeast Forsyth County.
The shooting followed a domestic dispute inside the home in the Riverbrooke subdivision, Forsyth County Sheriff's spokesman, Doug Rainwater, said.
When deputies arrived, they found 18-year-old DreLandon Brown with gunshot wounds. They administered CPR and set up a perimeter to find the suspect.
Witnesses told deputies the assailant had run out of the house immediately after the shooting.
Those who lived in the home identified the shooter as a person that they knew and reported that he also took his 2-week-old son with him--the infant's mother resides at the home.
Approximately five minutes later, deputies found the now-unarmed suspect on Grey Rock Way and took him into custody, Rainwater said. The suspect had the child, and placed him safely on the ground before surrendering to authorities.
Brown was taken to the hospital where he later succumbed to his injuries.
The juvenile male, who was taken into custody, was charged with murder and two counts of aggravated assault.
On Friday morning, detectives and deputies returned to the neighborhood in search of the weapon.
K9 search units from the Hall County Sheriff’s Office and Habersham County Sheriff’s Office aided in the search, and found the suspected murder weapon adjacent to the home where the shooting took place.
Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office’s Major Crimes Unit and the Crime Scene Unit are investigating.
