And while he has faced charges - for his mother - Jamal Samuels was also a victim of an uncaring system. And, he is the second son she has lost to gun violence.
And today she had an emotionally charged message for the killers of her second son:
Helen Samuels, Mother
"It hurt me bad because I never expected this. They don't know what they did to me, they bring a memory back and the same age my first son died, the same age he died. At the age of 29 and that wasn't supposed to happen but I put it in God's hands because everything that they do me. Jamal is a humble person, Jamal doesn't have friends, Jamal isn't on the street, Jamal doesn't hang. If Jamal hangs out. Jamal will hang in the yard here you understand me so they chanced my son and whosoever chance him I have news for them because I am not alone. My God is with me and my God will give me my justice that I need so they have it coming because God doesn't leave my side, he hasn't left and he said what they do to me and the same way they will get it back and the same way I am crying, their mom will cry the same way."
