Eight-Year-Old Boy Killed In Drive-By Shooting

Jermarrion Cherry, 8, of Walter Robins Georgia, was shot last Friday evening at a home on Virginia Dare Drive in Warner Robins, Georgia. Jermarrion died early Monday morning.

At about 9 p.m. on Friday evening, an unidentified person shot nearly a dozen times into Cherry’s home. According to 13 WMAZ, several small children were waiting in a Hyundai Accent to leave the house with an adult. The adult had stepped away for the car for just a moment before shots rang out.

Jermarrion was rushed to Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital in Atlanta for treatment where he passed at about 2:30 Monday morning.

Police Captain Jon Holland stated: "We're not going to stop looking for them. We will find them, and hopefully we will have closure for this family.”

No information regarding a suspect has been released. Officials are unsure whether the shooting is targeted, or to what residence and vehicle the suspect was attempting to aim for.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Houston County Sheriff’s Office at 478-542-2080.