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Atlanta proposes to spend $1.6million on private police force for wealthy suburb - known as The Beverly Hills of the East - as Dem star mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms admits she doesn t know how to stop crime wave after 7-year-old girl is shot dead
Atlanta city council members have proposed a $1.6million plan to create a private police force in Buckhead, one of its wealthiest suburbs
Comes after Kennedy Maxie, 7, was shot in the head by a stray bullet after Christmas shopping with her family on December 21
The proposal has so far been backed by local law enforcement and members of Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms administration
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is being criticized for failing to stop surge in crime
Atlanta saw three people fatally shot over the Christmas holiday weekend
Murders bring homicide count this year to 155, the highest since 1998
A 7-year-old girl was shot in the head by a stray bullet after Christmas shopping
Kennedy Maxie was shot on Dec. 21. She succumbed to her wounds on Saturday
Also on Saturday, a 16-year-old girl was fatally shot in a downtown Atlanta hotel
Police took 16-year-old boy into custody for fatal shooting of Kalecia Williams
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A 7-year-old Georgia girl died Saturday night from injuries sustained in a shooting earlier in the week while she was Christmas shopping with her family, a report said.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Kennedy Maxie was shot in the back of the head while she was driving with her mom and aunt near Atlanta’s Phipps Plaza.
The aunt, who was behind the wheel at the time, reportedly continued to drive after the gunfire until she noticed that the victim was acting strangely. She realized the girl was hit and rushed her to a hospital, where she was rushed into surgery.
Kennedy Maxie was the victim of a stray bullet near a shopping mall on Monday
She spent the next five days in a hospital before dying as a result of her injuries
There have now been 155 murders in Atlanta this year, the most amount of homicides in the city since at least 1998
In 2019, there were just 99 murders, marking a sharp uptick from a year ago