Man involved in MacArthur Center shooting arrested in Hampton after death of Atlanta girl

Amanpreviously charged in an October 2019 shooting at MacArthur Center was arrested this week in connection to the Dec. 21 death of a 7-year-old girl in Atlanta.

Daquan Reed was arrested in Hampton, the Atlanta Police Department said in a Facebook post Wednesday.

The post said Reed was extradited to Atlanta.

“APD wishes to acknowledge our Investigators, the Fugitive Team, the U.S. Marshals Office, and all persons involved in helping make this arrest possible,” the post said. “Weare relieved to make this arrest.”

Police secured arrest warrants against

Reed for felony murder, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and other charges, and a $15,000 reward was offered for information leading to his arrest in the shooting death of Kennedy Maxie.

They asked at a Dec. 29 news conference for the public’s help finding Reed, and said the girl was shot while sitting in the back seat of a relative’s vehicle in Atlanta. Kennedy 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, police said, adding that Reed fired three shots out the window and one hit Kennedy.

In Norfolk, he 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.

According to police, Reed and another man 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, 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 and in January, Reed was convicted of being an accessory after the fact.

He was sentenced to a year in jail with nine months of it suspended and two years of unsupervised probation, online court records show.