Bond was granted to one of three teens arrested in connection with the shooting that took place during the Sept. 16 football game at Lucy C. Laney High School.
On Friday Sept. 30, at the conclusion of a Richmond County Superior Court bond hearing for Santana Mance, 17, Judge Jesse Stone set a $5,000 bond on top of the $12,500 bond set on weapon and destruction of property charges Mance also faces. Stone also ordered electronic monitoring.
Mance and two other 17-year-olds, Roosevelt Demmons and Kinte Green, are charged with aggravated assault, criminal damage to property and weapon violations. Mance and Demmons were arrested the night of the shooting, and Green was arrested this week.
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Assistant District Attorney Dre’Kevius Huff said Friday that a fight broke out in the visitors’ section of the stadium on Laney Walker Boulevard during the football game between Laney and Thomson high schools. Those involved ran off before a board of education security officer could reach the fight and then gunshots were heard outside a short time later, Huff said.
Officers found 9 mm and .40- caliber shell casings as well as guns that night, Huff said. By using security video, sheriff investigators focused on vehicles believed used by the shooters.
Defense attorney Lucy Bell said Mance has never been in trouble before and was a good kid; she knows through his mother. Mance was the victim of a beating that night by 11 or 12 youths from Laney, she said.
He was searched before entering the stadium and did not have any firearms, Bell said.
Bond hearings have not yet been scheduled for Demmons nor Green.
Sandy Hodson is a staff reporter covering courts for The Augusta Press. Reach her at sandy@theaugustapress.com.
