JURY CONVICTS ONE OF ‘GEORGIA’S MOST WANTED’ FOR MURDER OF COLLEGE-BOUND STAR ATHLETE

Victim Gunned Down over $100 Bill

Atlanta- 27-year old Charles Richardson, once a fugitive for murder, will now spend life behind bars. Richardson has been convicted by a Fulton County jury of multiple felony counts including Murder, Felony Murder, Aggravated Assault and Possession of a Firearm during the commission of a crime for the shooting death of 20-year old Kyle Jennings.

Jennings was gunned down on April 11, 2008 outside the Stop ‘N Save convenience store on Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive. The defendant, angry over a $100 counterfeit bill the victim had given him a few days earlier, hunted Jennings down for revenge. Richardson approached the victim and his friends as they were leaving the store, pulled a pistol and shot Jennings three times- once in the leg and twice in the back. Richardson then fled to Chicago. He was arrested there and then transported back to Georgia by the Atlanta Fugitive Squad. Following his conviction, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Henry Newkirk who presided over the case, sentenced Richardson to a maximum life plus five-year sentence.

Jennings, a star athlete from Douglass High School in Atlanta had a football scholarship to Jacksonville State and had chosen to postpone college for a year to work and spend time with friends and family.

The case was prosecuted by Chief Senior Assistant District Attorney Lance Cross with assistance from ADA Stephanie Graham and DA Investigator Vance Willilams. Detective D. Dumas with the Atlanta Police Department led the initial investigation.

Media Contact: Yvette Brown, 404-224-0560/404-392-8867, yvette.brown@fultoncountyga.gov