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7 year-old boy killed in shootout

2014-10-03 3 Dailymotion

Greensboro, AL - "He was looking for me. He said, Mom they shot me. Mom they shot me, said Deanna Johnson, DeCorrin's mother.<br /><br />"He was standing at first and then he was covered in blood all on the right side and then all of a sudden he got a little weak and then the blood started oozing," High said.<br /><br />Johnson was emotional when describing the moments after her son had been shot. Much of her clothing was soaked with her son's blood.<br /><br />"I just saw the blood coming out of his neck and I couldn't do nothing but hold him and try to rush him to the hospital," she said.<br /><br />Witnesses says DeCorrin Johnson was celebrating the birthday of his late grandmother in Greensboro. While playing outside, two men began shooting at one another just feet from where the 7 year old was standing. Johnson was struck in chest by a bullet.<br /><br />They rushed the second grader to the hospital where he was going to be taken to Children's Hospital in Birmingham.<br /><br />"They did get him stable enough to get him in the helicopter but they had to reroute and take him to Brent because he got worse," High explained.<br /><br />Decorrion died shortly after.<br /><br />His family says Decorrion had just finished a football game where he made three touchdowns and he was excited for the birthday party.<br /><br />"It's senseless and too much. It doesn't make any sense," said Commelethia High, a friend of the family.<br /><br />High was at the party when Decorrion was shot. She says they were setting up for a birthday party.<br /><br />Decorrion was in the yard dancing with the other kids when High says two men started shooting at one another.<br /><br />Hale County District attorney Michael Jackson says the shooting was apparently over a female.<br /><br />Two suspects, JaPaul Williams and Lavares Jackson, have been taken into custody and are facing capital murder charges.<br /><br />High says she will never understand how this happened.<br /><br />The DA says JaPaul Williams and Lavares Jackson face capital murder and attempted murder charges.<br /><br />They're both in custody of the Hale County Jail with no bond.

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