JUVENILE 'DEVASTATED' & 'SHOCKED' OVER THE MURDER OF HIS 4-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER + MORE DETAILS FROM THE SHOOTING.

A spokesperson for Juvenile (real name Terius Gray) whose four year old daughter was shot and killed alongside her mother and half-sister says the rapper is, needless to say, 'devastated.' As previously reported, the bodies of Juvenile's daughter Jelani; her mother, Joy Deleston, 39; and Deleston's daughter Micaiah, 11, were found Thursday night in their home in Lawrenceville, Georgia, which is near Atlanta. Deleston's 17-year-old son, Anthony Tyrone Terrell Jr., is being charged with the murders. He was arrested Friday. "It really shocked him and devastated him to the point where I've never seen him before," Francis said of the rapper, according to the Associated Press. "Right now he is relaxing and trying to grasp everything of what has happened." Deleston, 39, was an actress who appeared in locally produced films, as well as a seven-and-a-half-year veteran of the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Police have not announced a motive in the killings.

Terrell waived his first court hearing, where he would have been formally notified of the charges against him, on Friday, a Gwinnett County Magistrate Court clerk told the AJC. Defense attorney Lyle Porter, who could not be reached Friday, has been assigned to represent him. Because of his age, prosecutors cannot seek the death penalty against Terrell. A preliminary hearing will be set next week in Gwinnett County Superior Court, prosecutor Danny Porter told the AP. He is being held without bail. Authorities on Friday found the gun used, going by information provided by Terrell. Police spokeswoman Illana Spellman said she could not confirm whether Deleston's service weapon was used. Police had gone to the subdivision because a caller reported shots fired, Officer David Schiralli said earlier. They found a bullet hole in a house, then checked next door because they knew a deputy lived there. "There was no answer, but lights were on," Schiralli said. "They opened the door a little bit to announce themselves," then discovered the bodies, he said. The 17-year-old son arrived at the house about 35 minutes later, he said. Spellman said he was arrested after talking to investigators but didn't elaborate.

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Neighbors said the family had moved in less than a year ago. They often saw Deleston in her squad car coming home from work and said having a deputy around was reassuring. Jeff Beaird, who lives across the street, said he often saw Terrell in the driveway shooting hoops with his friends or washing his mother's patrol car but doesn't remember anything out of the ordinary. "It's so shocking because you don't expect something like this to happen," Beaird said. Michael Hunt said he was taking a nap before starting work on the night shift Thursday when he heard the news about his neighbors. Hunt recalled that his wife had seen Terrell hours earlier walking down the street carrying a basketball. "For him to be scared of our dog and then to kill his whole family ... it just doesn't add up," Hunt said.