Six teenagers were arrested Monday afternoon on Savannah’s southside after another youth was beaten and robbed, police said.
The six are charged with beating and robbing a 14-year-old boy who was walking to the library, breaking his glasses and taking $20, said Julian Miller, Savannah-Chatham police spokesman. The victim had called his mother who approached the six suspects in a McDonald’s restaurant where they called her derogatory names and threatened to shoot her, Miller said.
Officers were forced to saturate an area from Apache Avenue and Mohawk Streets, across Abercorn Street to Fulton Road and across Rio Road to a heavily wooded area to capture the suspects, all 13- and 14-year-old boys, Miller said.
Communications officers helped direct the patrol officers who were pursuing the suspects on foot.
They have been detained at the Youth Detention Center on charges including obstruction, party to a crime, battery, terroristic threats and acts and robbery by force.
Savannah homicide, shooting suspect arrested in S.C.
A Savannah man charged with a March 17 homicide and shooting in the city was arrested in South Carolina on Tuesday by local and federal police.
Detectives here are awaiting extradition of James Harris Jr. to Chatham County from the Beaufort County, S.C., jail, said Julian Miller, Savannah-Chatham police spokesman.
Harris, 28, is charged with murder and aggravated assault in a March 17 double shooting on the 2000 block of Mississippi Avenue that killed 24-year-old Barry Trevon Williams and left a 25-year-old man injured.
At about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, members of the U.S. Marshals Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force, with assistance of the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office and Bluffton Police Department, arrested Harris on the 2000 block of Simmonsville Road in Bluffton, Miller said.
Harris’s extradition date has not yet been scheduled.
Man charged in March 17 shooting
A Savannah man who police say told them he had shot another man who was trying to rob him on St. Patrick’s Day has been arrested and charged with the shooting as well as lying to authorities.
Darrell Lamar Walker, 19, was arrested by members of the U.S. Marshals Service Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force on Tuesday morning on information provided by a violent crimes detective of the Savannah-Chatham police department and metro’s Savannah Area Regional Intelligence Center.
He is charged with the shooting of a 20-year-old man at Price Street and East Henry Street Lane on March 17, said Julian Miller, metro police spokesman.
The victim was found in the lane about 4:30 p.m. and transported to Memorial University Medical Center in critical but stable condition.
Metro detectives have charged Walker with criminal attempt murder, aggravated assault, possession of a firearm in commission of a crime and providing false statements and writings to a law enforcement officer, Miller said.
Atlanta saves Savannah shelter animals
Twenty-five dogs and 11 cats were transferred Tuesday from the Savannah-Chatham Animal Control Shelter to the Atlanta Humane Society to facilitate adoptions.
The Atlanta organization also picked up four cats and nine dogs from the Hilton Head Humane Association in Beaufort County, S.C.
The Atlanta organization had learned that the census at the Savannah facility was nearing capacity and launched the humanitarian effort to help avoid euthanizing the animals and find homes for them in the Atlanta area, said Julian Miller, Savannah-Chatham police spokesman.
The transfers eliminated about half of the dogs in the shelter, making room for more animals.