Dating app meetup leads to teen being robbed and shot, police say

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DeKalb County police said Copeland met a woman on a popular dating app and then rode with the woman from Cobb County to Wollowick Drive in Lithonia.

Copeland and the woman walked into a nearby wood line together and that's when investigators say two men were waiting and took Copeland’s two cellphones, wallet and then handed a gun to the woman who shot Copeland in the leg.

“For somebody out there to just shoot him, take his stuff, knock him upside the head -- but to put a gun, that is violating anybody’s life,” Okaro said.

As the suspects left, police say Copeland made his way to a nearby home to call 911.

“Whoever did this, I am hoping that you feeling what I am feeling today, this boy is loved. Six aunts, multiple cousins, we ain't trying to relate. We don’t want to lose nobody. We just want you to know that he got love behind him,” Okaro told Pozen.

Copeland had surgery on his leg and his grandmother said he might have to learn how to walk again because doctors had to take a vein from his other leg and they don’t know if his body will accept it.