17-Year-Old Gets Life Sentence In South Cobb Murder, Robbery

COBB COUNTY, GA — A 17-year-old Lithia Springs teenager was sentenced to life in prison last Tuesday after admitting to killing a teenage boy and robbing another.

Myliek Ryshiem Dunn pleaded guilty to murder in the death of Namir Kelly, a 16-year-old South Cobb High School student killed at an Austell apartment complex in May 2019, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

As part of his plea, Dunn also admitted to robbing a 14-year-old boy and beating him with a metal pipe the month before the fatal shooting. Prosecutors said Dunn's crimes were the result of gang violence, as Dunn is a known member of the gang known as RKN, or Rich Kid Nation.

Kelly died May 11, 2019 after planning to fight Dunn at the Chroma Park Apartments on Mesa Valley Way, the AJC reported. Both Kelly and Dunn brought friends as backup.

“Multiple witnesses told police that Dunn, whom they knew as ’10-40,’ and Kelly were exchanging words when Dunn pulled out a revolver and shot Kelly once in the chest,” agency spokesperson Kim Isaza said in a news release. “Dunn fled on foot, but was chased by several of Kelly’s friends.”

Dunn, who was 15 at the time, was arrested three days later.

Investigators also found evidence on Dunn's Instagram page of a robbery that took place in April 2019. Members of the RKN gang wore blue bandannas on their wrist when they held a 14-year-old boy at gunpoint on the East-West Connector and robbed him of his cell phone, ring and $50 in cash, the AJC reported.

Dunn was sentenced to life for Kelly's murder, with 20 years to serve in confinement for the robbery. Other charges related to gang violence and aggravated assault were dropped as a result of Dunn's guilty plea.

Dunn has also been indicted separately on charges of rape, child molestation and false imprisonment in connection with a 2017 incident involving an 11-year-old girl, court records show. Those charges, which were brought in February 2020, are still pending, according to the AJC.

Read more on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's website.