Mother Asks For Public's Help After Son Is Shot 6 Times On Halloween Night
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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A mother is asking for the public's help after her 16-year-old son was shot six times on Halloween night. She says her son thinks the shooter was a teenager.
"He's a baby," said Teresa Hunter, the mother of the victim, Hasam Williams.
"Who would do that to him? He's just a child," Hunter told CBS4's Peter D'Oench. "I'm devastated. I thought I was going to lose him. I thought I was going to lose him. I don't know what I would have done."
Williams was rushed to Jackson Memorial Hospital in critical condition.
Hunter showed CBS4 where her son was wounded.
"He was shot in his hands," she said. "He has two bullets in him in his back and in his side and arms. Four ribs are broken."
A bullet also grazed his head.
Hunter said her son had just left a convenience store and was headed home when he was confronted by three teenagers in a black Nissan at the corner of N.W. 24th Ave. and N.W. 46th St. Hunter said her son thinks all of the suspects in the shooter's car were high school students.
Williams is a 10th grade student at Miami Northwestern Senior High School.
"Some young kids did this to my son," she said. "I just don't know who did it. They tried to rob him. But he had no money. He only had a phone. Were they going to take his clothes and shoes? For what reason he got shot I don't know."
Hunter is receiving support from the Reverend Eric Readon, the pastor of the New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church in Miami Gardens. She is also being helped by her close friend, Tehsia Green, whose 24-year-old daughter, Precious Denise Jackson, was shot and killed in August outside her home in what police called a case of mistaken identity.
"I wished my baby could have made it and I hate for this to have happened to him because he's a good child and he didn't deserve that and my baby didn't deserve that," said Green. "I pray that whoever did this will do the right thing and I thank God angels were watching over him because he was able to make it to the hospital and recover. My baby went right from our home to the morgue."
Pastor Readon said, "My feeling is enough is enough. We just have to stay consistent with community leaders and continue to pray and help the mother out. We plead for the community to help this mother out. God bless that she didn't lose this child. But he is still wounded. We need to say that you live by the sword and you die by the sword. Those who did this need to step forward and turn yourself in and if anybody knows anything, please step up because it may be burning in their back yard today but it could be burning in your back yard tomorrow."
Hunter said, "Please help me find out who did this to my child. Whoever did this, turn yourself in. This generation of kids makes no sense. Watch your back and look out. You don't know what will happen. Sometimes it's like you are here today and gone tomorrow."
Miami-Dade Police said they do not have a description to release of the shooter.
Anyone with information should call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at (305) 471-TIPS (8477).
