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8-year-old dead after drive-by shooting in central Georgia

The child was identified as Jermarrion Cherry. He attended C.B. Watson Primary School.

WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — An 8-year-old child is dead following a shooting that happened on Virginia Dare Drive in Warner Robins Friday night.

According to Captain Jon Holland, the child was identified as Jermarrion Cherry. 

The child died early Monday morning at Scottish Rite Children's Hospital in Atlanta around 2:30 a.m. 

Holland says that around 9:15 p.m., they got a call for shots fired in the 200-block of Virginia Dare Drive.

Holland says multiple shots were fired at a house from a car driving by. Several small children were in the vehicle waiting to leave the house with an adult. 

Cherry was shot in the head.

He was taken to a Macon hospital at first, and then flown to Atlanta.

This case is still under investigation.

If you have any information on this case, you can call Sgt. Greg Pennycuff at 478 542-2080.

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