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Georgia high school football star’s girlfriend shares harrowing shooting experience on couple’s date night

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In an interview with Fox News Digital, the longtime girlfriend of a Georgia high school football player who was fatally shot in a mall parking lot by a Dave & Buster's restaurant recalled the terrifying shooting during the couple's date night and her choice to forgive the two teenage suspects detained in South Carolina. Elijah DeWitt, an 18-year-old wide receiver whom NFL legend Cam Newton himself gave the moniker "Eazy E," was fatally murdered on October 5 in the parking lot of the Sugarloaf Mills Shopping Center in Lawrenceville, Georgia. "I run over to Elijah, and he's on the ground, and I go right over to him, and he mouths to me — the last word he said to me was ‘help,’" Reidling told Fox News Digital. "You’re screaming in the moment because you're in shock. So, it's like a scream that you don't try to do, it’s just coming out. I checked his pulse, and I got freaked out because there is nothing going on there. Some sweet lady came around the corner and said, ‘Baby, he just got shot. Calm down. We called 911. They're already on their way.’"Elijah DeWitt & Bailey Reidling The arrests of two suspects, Kemare Bryan, 18, and Chandler Richardson, 19, both from Lawrenceville and ultimately captured in South Carolina, were made public two days later by Gwinnett County police. [caption id="attachment_50050" align="aligncenter" width="720"]Kemare Bryan & Chandler Richardson The Gwinnett County Police Department has charged Kemare Bryan and Chandler Richardson in the murder of Elijah DeWitt.[/caption] In connection with the murder of DeWitt, Bryan and Richardson are both accused of felony murder, malice murder, aggravated assault, and possession of a handgun during the commission of certain offenses. As funeral arrangements are being made for DeWitt on Wednesday, the two teenagers are scheduled to be extradited to Gwinnett County this week. There has been no stated reason.Elijah DeWitt & Bailey Reidling Despite the heartbreak, Reidling said, like DeWitt’s family, she’s chosen to forgive the suspects, saying, "This is not the only crime, it is everywhere."
"Just like his dad said, you don't really know. You don't know how those kids were raised — you know, what they were going through," Reidling told Fox News Digital. "It's not right. It never will be right. But you know, Elijah, this is not the only crime, this is everywhere. And it's horrible." "Elijah would forgive them, which seems like he wouldn't, you know, if you're one of those guy friends or if you see him on the field, he's a scary player, but he would have forgiven them. I'm going to," she said. "There's something in my heart telling me to. I haven't got any hatred towards them. Anger? Yes." "I genuinely think he’s at peace now," Reidling added. "And I think that's what … made me so calm is that he's at peace. So, I guess that brings me peace."

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