Thirteen-year-old Derron Woody was fatally shot after an after-school fight in Decatur, Georgia, on the afternoon of Thursday, March 27, 2025. Derron, a former student at DeKalb Alternative School and a seventh-grader at Bethune Middle School, was found on the front steps of a home in the 4800 block of Glenwood Road with a gunshot wound. Emergency services took him to a local hospital around 5:30 p.m., and he died later that evening.

DeKalb County police said they believed the victim and the suspect knew each other. Investigators took another middle school student into custody for questioning and were speaking with a person of interest, but as of late March 2025 no arrests or charges had been announced. Derron’s father, Derrick Woody, remembered his son as a loving boy who liked playing on his PlayStation and said he thought his son was trying to flee the altercation when he was shot. The family set up a GoFundMe for funeral expenses, and DeKalb Alternative School offered crisis intervention and grief counseling to those affected.

Does anyone have information about the March 27 incident or knew Derron and can help clarify what happened?