FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. — Arrest warrants for the chief of a gaggle that many individuals have characterised as “extremist” allege {that a} 911 name resulting in a SWAT response and the discovering of an 18-year-old useless inside the house was preceded by two group members being held in opposition to their will at gunpoint and one among them raped.

The warrants additionally say the 18-year-old, who police have mentioned died by suicide throughout the SWAT standoff, was one among two armed people who locked the victims within the storage the place the rape occurred.

The group, a self-styled revolutionary collective referred to as the Black Hammer Get together, henceforth has mentioned the 18-year-old, who they recognized as “AP,” was one among its leaders and refutes the declare that he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wounds.

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The group’s reported chief, Augusta Romain – generally known as Gazi Kodzo – is in custody following the incident this week in Fayetteville. He’s going through fees together with aggravated sodomy, two counts of conspiracy to commit a felony and legal avenue gang exercise, and two counts every of being a celebration to aggravated assault, being a celebration to false imprisonment and being a celebration to kidnapping.

The arrest warrants obtained by 11Alive on Friday say Romain directed AP and one other member, 21-year-old Xavier Rushin – generally known as Keno – to “level weapons” at two different members “and drive them to maneuver from the widespread space of ​​the house into the storage with padlocks on the storage door in order that Gazi may commit sodomy.”

Within the unique incident, police mentioned 9 individuals voluntarily got here out of the house when officers arrived on scene, with a robotic later looking out the house and discovering AP “unresponsive with an obvious self-inflicted gunshot wound to the top.”

The warrants don’t clarify what occurred throughout the standoff to the 2 members who’d apparently been locked into the storage.

They do determine Rushin as the person who was earlier reported strolling a canine across the Woodbyne Subdivision after which allegedly ran off “when questioned a few kidnapping name we obtained from the tackle he lives at.”

Rushin faces fees together with aggravated assault, kidnapping, false imprisonment, conspiracy to commit a felony, legal avenue gang exercise and obstruction.

The warrants allege the Black Hammer Get together is “a corporation documented as a legal avenue gang which engages in outlined legal acts.”

The Black Hammers group, which orients itself round anti-capitalist and Black liberation themes, has beforehand introduced associations with the Proud Boys and “declared struggle” in opposition to different leftist and liberal teams, corresponding to Antifa and Black Lives Matter, on the obvious grounds of being insufficiently revolutionary. It has additionally revealed narratives in opposition to the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, “Massive Pharma” and COVID vaccines.

The group itself claims it was working as a kind of radical de-colonizing collective out of the home, working to feed and assist homeless and poor communities.

11Alive spoke to Romain on the scene Tuesday, earlier than his arrest, and he mentioned, “I got here outdoors, I talked to one of many officers. I instructed him we now have somebody in there who’s mentally completely different.”

He added at the moment the 18-year-old “would by no means” take his personal life.

Each Romain and Rushin are being held on the Fayette County Jail. Police haven’t but provided any particulars about any of the opposite people who had been on the residence.