More than 600 people, mostly high school and college age, filled a Douglasville church sanctuary and spilled into an overflow room Thursday night to discuss ways to stop the senseless violence such as that which took the life of Bobby Tillman at a party last weekend.
The gathering, termed a “summit,” also included school, clergy and law enforcement officials, and sought to help clear the air between friends of Tillman, 18, and the four accused of stomping him to death.
According to witnesses, Tillman was attacked as he and a group of teens tried to leave a house party on Independence Drive. Witnesses said the fight began as a spat between two girls, one of whom struck a boy, who angrily declared that while he would not hit a girl, he’d hit the next boy he saw.
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