ATHENS, Ga. — A fourth man has been convicted and sentenced to prison in connection with a deadly shooting in Athens’ Five Points neighborhood.
Attorney General of Georgia Chris Carr said Jaden Appling, 21, of Athens, was sentenced to 35 years with the first 20 to be served in prison and the remainder on strict probation.
Appling joins Anthony Brown, Glendarius Tate, and X’Zydric Faust in prison, who entered guilty pleas in September 2024.
On March 5, 2023, Ja’Vanni McDavid, 24, and four of his friends left a party.
McDavid was driving and his four friends were passengers in his vehicle.
While McDavid was stopped at a red light, a second vehicle pulled up next to him and multiple gunmen opened fire on the car.
McDavid and his friends returned fire.
Investigators said evidence suggests that McDavid was accidentally shot by one of his friends inside his car.
They also determined that McDavid was an associate of Red Tape Gang and Appling, Brown, Tate, and Faust were members of the Everybody Killa street gang.
Brown, Tate, and Faust received the same sentence as Appling.
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