Three individuals are booked in the Cobb County Adult Detention Center as of Saturday, Feb. 15, after being charged with crimes that allegedly occurred at U Club on Frey last month.
The suspects, 17-year-old Bryce Dowell, 18-year-old Dameyon Heck and 17-year-old Madalyn Hooker, are facing five felony charges, including armed robbery, aggravated assault with intent to rob and aggravated assault with murderous intent. The trio is also being charged with seven misdemeanors, including simple assault, according to the Cobb County Sheriff Office’s website.
The teens do not live at the complex and are not students at Kennesaw State.
The incident has been under investigation by the Kennesaw City Police Department since Sunday, Jan. 26, when the trio allegedly robbed and beat multiple people at the apartments where KSU students live at around 12 a.m.
The three teens are suspected of the beatings of two male victims, theft of one of the male victims’ cellphone and nearly beating a female victim to death. The female victim received several blows to her head and neck, according to the Marietta Daily Journal.
“Due to the amount of assailants, kicks and punches to the head and neck area of said victim, it could have reasonably killed her,” police warrants said, according to the MDJ.
Police said that the trio was part of a larger group responsible for the crime. Seven other victims were also worried about being assaulted because of the large number of people taking part in the crime. These victims also became afraid when they saw that one assailant pulled out a gun.
One of the victims was approached while he reached into his pocket, which prompted one of the suspects to brandish his pistol. The victim was then allegedly beaten and robbed by the group of assailants.
Reportedly, another male victim nearly had his phone stolen and was subsequently beaten by those who tried to rob him, according to the MDJ.
Hooker admitted to Kennesaw police to driving Dowell and Heck to the Kennesaw apartment complex, witnessing the assaults and robberies then fleeing the scene with them in her vehicle.
Hooker was later pulled over and arrested Friday, Feb. 14, near Canton, Georgia, on Knox Bridge Highway while Dowell and Heck were not found and arrested until Saturday, Feb. 15.
Dowell has a bond of $4,070, Cobb jail records show. Heck is without bond, as is Hooker, according to detention center records.
The trio was identified by footage recorded on witnesses’ cellphones as the crime occurred and posted on social media. Although not specifically named, police were also able to identify the suspects from previous run-ins with law enforcement and eyewitnesses of the crime.
The suspects are from Cherokee and Paulding counties.
