Mother Defends Children From Gang

WSB-TV out of Atlanta reported on August 5 about a woman who was forced to use armed self-defense against gang members. The mother, identified as Shaquita Green, called 911 to report a shooting that occurred in the early hours of August 3. Green’s husband was not home at the time of the incident, and Green said she was home with her three children when a man she knew came to her home looking for her husband. Not suspecting any foul play, Green let the man, Javarian Mitchell, into the house. Mitchell then let another man, 27-year-old Keandre Funches, into the house. Investigators believe that both Mitchell and Funches are part of a local gang and that the two men may have been planning some type of ambush on Green’s husband.

Marietta Officer Chuck McPhilamy told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that, “at some point, Funches threatened the residents with his own hand gun.” Green told WSB-TV that Funches pulled a gun on her and demanded that she and her children move to the back of the house.

Green pleaded with Funches to stop what he was doing. “That’s when I stepped in front of them [her children] and said, ‘You don’t have to do all of that,’” she told WSB-TV. Law enforcement said that Green then grabbed a nearby loaded firearm and, out of fear for her own safety and the safety of her children, fired at Funches in self-defense. Funches was fatally wounded and died at the scene. This was not Funches’ first involvement with criminal activity: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that he had been arrested multiple times over the years and was involved in a 2015 incident in which he drew his gun on a police officer and fired it, only to have the gun jam.

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