Man involved in MacArthur Center shooting charged with killing 7-year-old girl in Atlanta

Amanpreviously charged in an October 2019 shooting at MacArthur Center is now wanted in Georgia after a 7-yearold girl was fatally shot Dec. 21, the apparent victim of a stray bullet.

The Atlanta Police Department said during a news conference Tuesday that Daquan Reed, 24, is a suspect in the murder of Kennedy Maxie.

Police have secured arrest warrants against Reed for felony murder, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and other charges, Lt. Pete Malecki said.

Kennedy was shot while sitting in the back seat of a relative’s vehicle near the intersection of Peachtree Road NE and Lenox Road NEin Atlanta, according to police. She died the day after Christmas.

Reed was in the parking lot of a nearby Saks Fifth Avenue when he got into an argument and drove off, Malecki said.

Calling what happened next a “senseless act of rage,” Malecki said Reed fired three shots out the window, one of which hit Kennedy. Detectives don’t think the girl was a target and believe Reed was the sole shooter, Malecki said.

There is a reward of $15,000 for information leading to Reed’s arrest.

Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms also spoke at the conference, and said Reed has had previous run-ins with the law in Atlanta.

“He’s not a stranger to law enforcement,” she said.

In Norfolk, Reed was charged with accessory after the fact following a shooting at MacArthur Center on Oct. 14, 2019, that injured a 56-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man. Neither victim had life-threatening injuries.

The shooting happened around 8:20 p.m. Detectives said Reed and another man, Molek Alcantara, were walking through the mall when they ran into the 23-year-old man and the three “exchanged words.” One of the suspects shot the man, police said.

The mall was locked down for about an hour while police investigated, and Norfolk Police Chief Larry Boone said that night there was a “high probability” the shooting was gang related.

Both men were arrested by U.S. Marshals in Atlanta days after the incident.

In January, Reed was convicted of being an accessory after the fact. A judge sentenced him to a year in jail with nine months of it suspended and two years of unsupervised probation, online court records show.