DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. — Jeremiah Johnson is one of nine teenagers shot at a Sweet 16 party in Douglasville on March 4. Two of those teenagers, 15-year-old Samuel Moon and 14-year-old Ajanaye Hill, died from their injuries.
Of the surviving teens, deputies say Johnson’s injuries were some of the most critical.
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Deputies Jacob Hitchcock and Spencer Gray are being credited for helping save the teen’s life.
Johnson says Deputy Hitchcock pressed on his wounds with a compression pad to help stop bleeding and help him breathe more easily.
“I don’t know how to say it, but I greatly, greatly appreciate you,” Jeremiah’s mother Carlene Johnson told the deputies.
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In a video released on social media, Carlene Johnson recounts to Douglas County Sheriff Tim Pounds that Jeremiah Johnson’s twin sister wanted to go to the party and she told her no several times.
When Jeremiah Johnson told his mother that he would go to the party and watch out for his sister, she says she still told them they couldn’t go, but eventually changed her mind and allowed them to go to the party.
Four teenagers have been arrested for the shootings and charged with Moon and Hill’s murders.
Timothy Coleman Jr., 18, Chance McDowell, 17, Chase McDowell, 17, and Kingston Cottom, Jr., 17, are all charged with two counts of malice murder, nine counts of aggravated assault and seven counts of aggravated battery.
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