A 19-year-old Mississippi man told a friend that he didn't want to go into a store moments before he was gunned down Tuesday evening, his mother said.
Quintavious McCray was killed at a convenience store in Jackson, Miss., and his mother, Kami McCray, said she wants justice for her son and police to clear his name.
She said a black car pulled into the store's parking lot as shots were fired at the store, hitting her son.
"He told the boy, 'I didn't I don't want to go to the store,'" McCray told WLBT-TV.
"This is what they told me, said out his mouth. He said, 'I don't want to walk to the store. I feel like if I walk to the store I'm going to die. ... He felt it.'"
A number of incidents were occurring in the area at the same time of her son's shooting, and police initially believed Quintavious was involved.
His mother said those accounts are inaccurate.
"It's just sad that there's people out there that just want to harm people ... kids like that. Y'all have mothers, y'all have kids, sisters, mamas. Y'all don't have no sympathy, and it's sad," McCray told the station.
Police said they haven't been able to verify whether Quintavious was involved in any of the incidents, WLBT reported.
Police Chief Joseph Wade said the investigation is ongoing.
"We want to clear his name, want to make sure he had nothing to do with it," he said.
"And why someone would say he has something to do with it, we'll find out. We'll get to the bottom of it. She backs us up with a mother and whatever the issues are, whatever the information was given to us that was bogus or not true. We'll follow up on it as well. But the bottom line, we still have a shooter out here," Wade said, the station reported.
