College Park police are asking for the public’s help in identifying two men seen running from the area of a double homicide at the Yorktown Condominiums on Yorktown Drive just after 11:00 p.m. Saturday.
Police say 19-year-old Devonta Stembridge and 16-year-old Dion Davis were shot by two unknown gunmen who may have been sitting in the backseat of Stembridge’s car.
The teens were unresponsive when paramedics and detectives arrived at Yorktown Condominiums in College Park around 11:15 p.m. Both teens were pronounced dead at the scene.
A resident in the complex saw two males running from the area of the car after hearing gunshots.
“This was a cowardly act for you to do this. This was a senseless crime,” Tomesha Simmons, Stembridge’s cousin, said as she and other family members gathered at the home of his grandmother today.
“We’re hurting, his mother is hurting. She’s hurting, please come forward and tell, tell anything you know,” Simmons said.
“First thing that comes to mind is robbery. Another thing that comes to mind is drugs,” Capt. Ferman Williford of the College Park Police Department said.
Detectives are looking into Stembridge and Davis’ phone records to see who they might have picked up or spoken to in the hours before the shooting.
Agents of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are assisting College Park police in the investigation.
Anyone with information about the shootings is asked to call College Park Detective Antoine Redding at (404) 761-3131, ext. 2245 or the department’s tip line: (404) 768-8664.
