Almost two years since Eric Reese was shot to death after sending his teenage daughter home from watching a gang fight outside at Park Place Apartments, Reese’s sister and one of his friends are asking the city of Statesboro to make the complex safer. A Bulloch County Superior Court jury trial is slated to begin June 14 for Lester Parrish Jr., who was 17 when he allegedly shot Reese, 46, the night of Aug. 15, 2014. After presentations by District Attorney Richard Mallard and a Statesboro Police Department detective in November 2014, a grand jury indictment asserted Parrish was associated with a street gang called the Bloods, whose members went to Park Place to fight “the Crazy Eights, a rival gang.”
Solution sought for Park Place
Two years after killing, some say gangs still gather at huge complex