Cobb County Superior Court Judge Kimberly Childs has sentenced an 18-year-old to life in prison without the possibility of parole plus 20 years after pleading guilty to malice murder and violating the street gang terrorism and prevention act.
According to a news release from Cobb County District Attorney Flynn D. Broady Jr., on April 8, 2020, Marietta Police responded to a report of a missing juvenile female in the Roswell Road area of the city.
The release indicates investigators learned that the victim and another juvenile were going to a store when Brayan Rivas confronted them and tried to start a fight with the male and threatened them both with a knife. The two juveniles ran from the defendant, with the victim running away and the other taking the defendant’s bike to escape.
Rivas pursued the juveniles and lost sight of the male. Authorities say Rivas chased the juvenile female into the woods behind apartments at 1805 Roswell Road and stabbed her to death.