The 17-year-old Therrell High School student accused of shooting five people near the southwest Atlanta school on Tuesday was out on bond for robbery, authorities said.
Marcellus Brooks pleaded not guilty less than a week ago to a felony robbery charge, according to Fulton County Superior Court records obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Brooks was arrested last month by MARTA police in connection with a March 29 incident, and released after 15 days in jail on $8,000 bond, according to jail records.
Court records show he was awaiting an August trial for that charge Tuesday when police arrested and charged him with five counts of aggravated assault for the alleged gun attack near the school.
The justice system can’t and won’t keep known dangerous people away from society, and those people have no regard for the law, not laws on assault, murder, gun free zones, or weapon possession.
Laws do have a profound effect on those who are law abiding and wish to stay that way. When the laws do nothing to stop the dangerous people, and put good people in danger, this is when we need to consider a change in the laws.
By changes, what do you mean? Would a background check have stopped this person from obtaining a gun? Would a Registration have stopped or prevented him form obtaining a gun or even using it the way he did? There are already laws that prohibit everything that he did, so what changes do you propose? How about we rigidly enforce the laws that we have? No bond, no plea bargain, no deals for lesser charges, etc, etc. It is time for our society to be intolerant of criminals and their acts. Arrest them, jail them, try them, sentence them with the harshest penalties allowed…….or in some cases, not allowed!. “Oh, but he was such a good boy…” BLAH!
He IS a good boy……….He is very good at being an A__HOLE……….IMHO………..