GUILTY GA - Nizzear Rodriguez, 13, slain in his Carrollton home, 24 Aug 2014

He wasn’t even 5 feet tall and had only been 13 years old for a few hours. But Nizzear Rodriguez had big plans.

A straight-A student, Nizzear wanted to go to college, then create video games that were even better than the ones he loved to play. This fall, he planned to make the all-star team in recreation league basketball. And later this week, he was planning to go to an arcade with his dad to celebrate his birthday...

Instead, Nizzear was shot in the head around 2 a.m. Sunday as he slept in his grandmother’s Carrollton apartment, according to police.

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Police say witnesses heard gunfire between 1 and 3 a.m. Sunday. They said televisions in the home may have drowned out the gunfire.

Carrollton homicide detectives said the 911 call went out at 12:16 p.m. Sunday. When police arrived the family had the boy in a car trying to rush him to the hospital, but it was too late.

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Britannica Turner, 21, of Carrollton, was charged with making false statements, Capt. Chris Dobbs with Carrollton police said...

Earlier this week, three suspects were charged with murder in the case. Malik Davis, 17, Kenneth Wheat, 21, and Jackquline Leann Freeman, 24, all of Carrollton, were denied bond in court appearances.

Bond was set at $10,000 for Oleida Ward, 34, of Carrollton, charged with making false statements.

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JusticeWillBeServed said:

Kenneth Devion Wheat entered a guilty plea this past September but his sentencing is being withheld until the trial of Malik Lyndon Davis has concluded. In November, the judge granted Davis to receive a psychiatric evaluation.



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As his grandmother watched, Nizzear ate bite after bite of his Applebee’s feast, dressed in a new shirt and khakis. Back at his family’s Carrollton townhouse, he went into his upstairs bedroom, where he watched television. Somehow, no family members heard the gunshot that killed him. And more than three years later, there is not a convicted killer nor a motive.

Last week, a jury acquitted the man believed to have been the gunman. Malik Davis was acquitted of murder and aggravated assault charges, but convicted of burglary, Hunt said.

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Kanisha Cofer said she and her family wanted a murder conviction, a sense of justice for her nephew’s death. But strong in their faith, Cofer and her family members have manged to put their anger aside.

"We were disappointed, but we had to redirect ourselves and remind ourselves that God is the judge,” Cofer said. “We're not going to depend on the system to be the judge.”

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