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Suspects arrested in connection with home invasion robbery

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ATLANTA - Police have arrested two Atlanta teens for the early morning slaying of a southeast Atlanta man during an apparent home invasion robbery. <br> <br> Police arrested 16-year-old Kindell Butler and a 14-year-old - whose name is being withheld because of his age - and charged them with murder and armed robbery. <br> <br> Atlanta Police spokesman Sergeant John Quigley said a witness recognized the pair as they fled. The teens were arrested at daybreak. <br> <br> Police say the two teens were wearing ski masks when they shot 58-year-old John Denson multiple times in the chest at 1:45 a.m. during a robbery. Denson died at the scene. His common-law wife was uninjured. <br> <br> As the suspects fled, they shot at a security guard making his rounds at an apartment complex across the street. Police say the guard was not hit. The suspects dropped cash in the driveway as they ran away on foot. <br> <br> Investigators have not determined how the men got into the house.
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