A Clark Atlanta University graduate student charged in a road rage shooting will remain in jail after a grand jury indicted him just days before he was set to face a judge.
Channel 2′s Michael Seiden was there as family and friends of Ladavious McNair packed the courtroom on Monday for what was supposed to be a preliminary hearing.
But that didn’t happen because of an indictment. They were shocked to learn he wouldn’t be getting out.
“I’m at a loss for words,” McNair’s fiancée told Seiden. “It’s unrealistic. It’s inhumane.”
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McNair’s family made an emotional plea for justice and called on Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to look at the facts of the case.
A victim in a 2023 shooting told police that he and McNair were involved in a minor accident. The victim said McNair got out of his car when they stopped at Metropolitan Pkwy and Ralph David Abernathy Blvd and shot him in the leg.
McNair’s attorney, Marsha Mignott, called those allegations false. She says her client, an Army veteran and Ph.D. student at Clark Atlanta, was in the middle of class at the time of the shooting.