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| Dinyal New |
The AP reports that a Northern California mother pleaded for justice Tuesday, two days after her eldest teenage son was fatally shot and just three weeks after her youngest son suffered a similar fate.
Dinyal New made her plea outside her home just blocks from a growing makeshift memorial of flowers and candles in a quiet neighborhood in east Oakland where her oldest son, 19-year-old Lamar Broussard, and a childhood friend were shot and killed on Sunday - just three days after burying her youngest son.
New's youngest son, 13-year-old Lee Weathersby III, was shot about a mile away on New Year's Eve. He died the next day.
"All my boys are gone," said New, 41, as she begged for witnesses who may know anything about the killings to contact police.
"I'm numb. I am stunned. I am mad. I am angry and hurt," New continued. "I hope that somebody please comes forward if they saw something to tell the police."
New pleaded with those who knew the victims that no retaliation occur in response to the shootings.
"You know what my retaliation will be? To see whoever did this be convicted and sentenced in a courtroom," New said. "No, no, no. Please, no retaliation."
Sunday's killings were Oakland's fourth and fifth of 2014. The city had 92 homicides last year, down from 131 in 2012 and the lowest since 2004.
Dinyal New made her plea outside her home just blocks from a growing makeshift memorial of flowers and candles in a quiet neighborhood in east Oakland where her oldest son, 19-year-old Lamar Broussard, and a childhood friend were shot and killed on Sunday - just three days after burying her youngest son.
New's youngest son, 13-year-old Lee Weathersby III, was shot about a mile away on New Year's Eve. He died the next day.
"All my boys are gone," said New, 41, as she begged for witnesses who may know anything about the killings to contact police.
"I'm numb. I am stunned. I am mad. I am angry and hurt," New continued. "I hope that somebody please comes forward if they saw something to tell the police."
New pleaded with those who knew the victims that no retaliation occur in response to the shootings.
"You know what my retaliation will be? To see whoever did this be convicted and sentenced in a courtroom," New said. "No, no, no. Please, no retaliation."
Sunday's killings were Oakland's fourth and fifth of 2014. The city had 92 homicides last year, down from 131 in 2012 and the lowest since 2004.
