MANCHESTER, Ga. — It was a senseless killing over a $1,500 dirt bike, and the families of two men who were ambushed in Walton County are pleading for more arrests.
The family will drive from Meriwether County to Walton County for the 16-year-old suspect's bond hearing Monday.
It's the same drive the two friends, victims Smack Harris and Cortez White, made three weeks ago before they were killed.
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Now, the suspect has refused to anyone else involved in the shooting.
"My baby, I will never see again. But your parents can come and look at you. But we can't see ours. We can't see our baby no more," mother Angela Harris told Channel 2's Chris Jose. "It's just unbelievable somebody would just take somebody's life for a dirt bike. They would've given him the dirt bike."
In May, Smack Harris drove his friend, Cortez White, to Walton County to sell a dirt bike he posted online. White's family said the suspect asked for a test drive.
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“They were like, 'We can't test drive in city limits. So let’s go a couple minutes south on a country road where we can ride the dirt bike,'” White’s cousin Tanisha Brandford said.
Brandford said the suspect got into a pickup truck, and a few seconds later he fired his gun.
“There were no arguments leading up to this. There were no words. There was nothing,” Brandford told Jose. “We're looking at this person as a cold-blooded killer.”
The Walton County sheriff believes there are other people involved, but the teenage suspect has refused to cooperate.
“If anybody out there knows anything, you got a family, you got kids, anything, just come forward,” Brandford said.
A plea from two grieving families who buried two young men in the last week.
“He didn't deserve what happened to him. He didn't even a chance to give me a grandchild,” Harris said.
The Walton County Sheriff's Office hasn't identified the suspect because of his age. The family is hoping he'll be charged as an adult.
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