15-year-old Georgia girl shot to death in her bed, three teens charged

Mom found a 15-year-old Georgia girl lying in bed with an apparent gunshot to the head, and three 18-year-old men identified as acquaintances were charged with her murder.

Mom Madison Gesswein called 911 early Tuesday morning after she made a gruesome discovery at her apartment at The Greens at Braelinn in Peachtree City, telling the dispatcher her daughter was “bleeding from her head,” 11Alive reported.

She said that when she entered her daughter’s bedroom, the window was open and there was a “mess” on the blinds.

The unidentified mother told the dispatcher that she “couldn’t get any response from her” but that there was “a lot of blood” on the bed and that her son was sleeping in his room.

The dispatcher then instructed the mother on how to perform CPR on her daughter and counted the strokes until the first responders arrived nearly five minutes later.

On Wednesday, police arrested three 18-year-old suspects whom they called Madison “acquaintances.”

Justus Smith, Jacobin Brown and Joshua Mathis, all residents of Fayetteville, Georgia, have been charged with murder, the Peachtree City police said in a statement.

“The final cause of death has not yet been determined by a medical examiner, but Madison’s head injury appears to be consistent with a gunshot wound,” police said.

The motive for the shocking crime has not yet been established.

“This was not a random act,” Assistant Chief of Police Matt Myers said, Fox 5 Atlanta reported. “They knew whose apartment they were in, and it somehow had to do with the relationship between these people.”

Jada Zimbabwe, one of Madison’s friends, remembered the young girl as “just really sweet”, telling a news outlet that “everyone I know liked her.”

The friend added: “It’s just so scary to know that someone so close was killed so brutally.”