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Tchywaskie Lamar Jones was tried by a Dougherty County jury and convicted of aggravated assault and a violation of the Georgia Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act, OCGA § 16-15-1 et seq., in connection with a shooting at a public pool in Albany in which a bystander was wounded. Jones appeals and raises several claims of error, including that the evidence is insufficient to sustain his convictions and that the trial court failed to respond as required by OCGA § 17-8-75 when the prosecuting attorney spoke in his closing argument of facts outside the record.1 We agree that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the conviction for violation of the Street Gang Act, and we agree that the trial court failed to fulfill its obligations under OCGA § 17-8-75. For those reasons, we reverse the judgment below.

1. Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdicts, the evidence shows that on June 16, 2009, Sequoia Jefferson went to a crowded public swimming pool in Albany, accompanied by at least four other women and their children, including Jefferson’s infant son. Around 6:00 p.m., as Jefferson and her companions were waiting to be admitted into the pool, they were approached by another group of women, and an altercation occurred. An unidentified woman apparently attempted to strike the woman who was carrying Jefferson’s son, and she struck the baby instead. Jefferson called the baby’s biological father, Dabkowski Luke, and told him of the assault.

 
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