Macon 16-year-old sentenced in 2014 carjacking spree - Macon Telegraph (blog)
Coleman Jr. was 15 last October when he and a group of other teens allegedly forced a man from his car at gunpoint in the parking lot of the Macon Marriott City Center hotel on Coliseum Drive. Prosecutor Neil Halvorson said Coleman admitted to police that he kicked the 61-year-old man as the man lay on the ground during the heist. Coleman pleaded guilty to armed robbery and violating Georgia’s Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act during a hearing in Bibb County Superior Court. Halvorson said the carjacking was the third in a string allegedly carried out by a group of five teenagers allegedly associated with Macon’s Crips street gang. 24, Shamarcus Takori James, Gregory Sherard Hamm Jr. and Nicholas Shamir Young, all 17, allegedly robbed a pizza delivery woman at gunpoint at College Park Apartments on Williamson Road. 4, James and Young allegedly took a man’s 1999 Buick Park Avenue at gunpoint at the Enmark gas station at 3825 Pio Nono Ave. Coleman, James, Young and 17-year-old Lavae Downing Jr. were in the Buick Oct. 5 when they saw the man walking to his car at the Marriott and took his 2013 Toyota Camry, Halvorson said. Young pleaded guilty to armed robbery and violating the gang act earlier this month. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison that will be followed by another 15 years on probation. Source: www.macon.com
