ATLANTA, Ga. — Atlanta police returned Monday to the spot where someone shot and killed 13-year-old Deshon DuBose.
It happened Saturday night outside the popular Cascade Family Skating venue in Southwest Atlanta.
“In a perfect world, this wouldn’t happen. In a perfect world he’d still be around,” said Edward Andrew Botchwey, a senior at Drew Charter School in Southeast Atlanta where DuBose attended.
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Botchwey told Channel 2′s Audrey Washington the school is feeling the loss.
“It’s just heartbreaking to see someone who you knew, not be in class anymore,” Botchwey explained.
At an Atlanta City Council meeting Monday, residents voiced their frustration with recent shootings involving kids and teens.
There is now a motion to change the city’s curfew from 11 p.m. to 8 p.m.
“These kids are shooting guns early and they dying way too early,” yelled one resident.
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“They’ll be in the house. I don’t care who don’t like it, we’re losing these kids man,” the resident added.
Activist Jack Logan heads the “Put Down The Gun Now Young People” organization.
He said he’s in favor of the proposed curfew.
“I support it, I want it and that’s what will cure a lot of these tragic situations,” said Logan.
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City Councilmember Keisha Waites told Channel 2 the proposal is still on the table and will go back before the public safety committee in two weeks.
Police are still investigating the case.
They believe Deshon DuBose might have been an innocent bystander.
On social media, friends wrote that DuBose was kind and loved volunteering.
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