And while Tillett's family hopes for justice, so does the mother of the other slain teenager. As we reported, 16-year-old Jahfeth Stamp was killed on Sunday morning after he went into a yard while armed with a gun. Before he could pull the trigger, someone else fired at him. Stamp ran a few feet before he collapsed, after which another man picked up the gun and shot 43-year-old Wayne Matura in the leg.
Yesterday, you heard Stamp's mother saying he was set up and that he chose to be on the streets rather than in school. Today, she came back to our studio to lament the death of her son, saying that the people who gave him the gun should be the ones behind bars.
Angela Lopez, Mother of Deceased
"You paint my son wrong, you paint my son like a gunman, you comment a whole heap of things under my son comments when I did my interview. I don't know what's going on but from the statistics that I got over *expletive* night on the news that the person that they shot, it wasn't my son who shot him. After they killed my son, then the young man look like he took away the gun that he gave my son to go to the people to do some kind of talking, put my son in jeopardy to cost my son's life."
"Yes my son approach the yard with intentions, what is intentions? It's because he got peer pressured. They peer pressured my son to do something he wasn't ready for. Then the young man is still out here free."
"I don't understand why you all dressed my son the way you dressed my son, I want to know who dressed my son for his death, and you sent him in a yard where you know just cold murderers are. Why you did that to my poor child, I don't know."
"Like you don't know how my son dress, he dress in big clothes, he doesn't dress in tight clothes, you put tight clothes on my son and then you put a gun on my son and people will see the gun on my son and take my son like gunman."
Courtney Menzies:
"The police is saying it might be self defense because..."
Angela Lopez, Mother of Deceased
"That's what I don't care, self defense or no defense, that's an innocent *expletive* little kid, by peer pressure, while the next youth was down the street waiting for my son to come back, not knowing that my son will never come back, don't tell me about peer pressure and self defense and I don't want you commenting a lot of stupidness under my kid's death."
So far no one has been arrested while Wayne Matura - is recovering in the hospital.
