Alabama TikTok Sensation Seeks Help of 7 Million Followers To Find Son's Killers

A Tiktok sensation is seeking the help of her millions of followers to bring to justice at least one of the suspects that shot her son dead over the weekend.

Ophelia Nichols, popularly known on the online platform as Mama Tot (@shoelover99) uploaded a video pleading to her 7.3 million TikTok followers to help find the culprit for the killing of her son Randon Lee.

Lee was shot a day before his 19th birthday at Prichard, Alabama on Friday, per Fox News.

Nichols told her followers in the video: "I ain't never ask y'all for anything, but I need your help with this. There are almost 7 million people that follow me. Somebody's gotta know something."

"I know they're out there, in my town, They're out there. They're out there, living and breathing when my son's dead," she added.

The TikTok star warned the suspects that they "will be found" eventually and "reap what you sow in this world."

"You may not be caught now but it is coming. I hope you see my son's face every day of your life."

Investigation Still Ongoing

In a subsequent post, Nichols disclosed that she had a "lead" on two persons. However, she did not mention the specific source of that information.

In an interview with local WKRG, Nichols provided additional details, stating that her son was shot at a gas station before he went to another gas station down the street where he was later found dead.

@shoelover99You will be found! You will reap what you sow in this world. You may not be caught now but its coming. I hope you see my sons face eveyday of your life ♬ original sound - ophelia

Prichard Police are investigating a Friday night shooting around 7:45 p.m. a few miles northwest of Mobile. Authorities said the crime remains under investigation, as per a WGNTV report.

Police have not yet released additional details as of present writing.

New Gun Safety Law Will 'Save Lives'

The fatal shooting incident occured hours after President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan federal gun safety bill into law, which marked the first significant gun safety measure in the United States in three decades.

Biden remarked that though the bill "doesn't do everything" that he and his party had advocated for, it is still "going to save lives."
The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act intensifies background checks for firearms buyers between the ages of 18 and 21.

Furthermore, it aims to close the "boyfriend loophole" and outlaw gun ownership for domestic abusers who are not married to their spouses.

The new gun control law would also give funds to states to support red-flag regulations, which allow law enforcement or close family and friends to ask the court to order the confiscation of a gun if the owner is determined a threat.

Under the law, mental health and school safety programs will also receive funds.

Critics, however, say the scope of the measure is too small for a country with the highest gun ownership numbers worldwide and the highest yearly frequency of mass shootings among developed nations, as per an Al Jazeera report.

Last month, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated in a report that the gun deaths in the US have increased by 35% in 2020 to the highest level since 1994, with dangerous rates for young Black men.