The Brief
- 17-year-old Sheldon Lewis was killed Thursday night when a neighbor’s gun discharged while being cleaned at a Stone Mountain Highway motel, police say.
- The Lewis family, already struggling with homelessness and a mother’s cancer diagnosis, witnessed the teenager’s final moments.
GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. – The family of a Gwinnett County teenager is grappling with an unimaginable loss after a stray bullet fired through a motel room wall claimed the life of 17-year-old Sheldon Lewis.
The backstory:
The incident occurred around 11 p.m. Thursday at the Live In Lodge Extended Stay on Stone Mountain Highway, according to police. Lewis, an 11th-grade student at Parkview High School, was inside his family’s room playing video games when a bullet traveled through the shared wall from the neighboring unit.…