Michelle Poindexter told the Chicago Tribune that her son Tyjuan was always getting teased for being a mama’s boy.
“He don’t go nowhere, he don’t have no Facebook, if he don’t have family with him he goes nowhere,” said Poindexter. “They used to taunt him: ‘Your mother walking you to school?’ But that’s my prerogative.”
Poindexter finally amended the strict rule on Friday after her son begged to go out with friends.
“He asked me and I said no,” she said. “He asked me again and I said OK, but please come back early.”
That decision now haunts Poindexter.
The one time the 35 year old mom agreed to let her son go out with friends was the night he was fatally shot.
Poindexter says she received a call later that night alerting her that he’d been shot.
Tyjuan didn’t have a criminal record and neither did the other boy who was wounded. Police say Tyjuan and his friends were on their way to play basketball when a car pulled up beside them and opened fire. Tyjuan was shot in the head.
Tyjuan says her son had no gang affiliations and was an a sweet child.
“He loved everybody,” she said. “Every time when I’m down, he says, ‘Hey, Mom, what can I do?’ ”
Poindexter says her son loved drawing sneaker designs and was a big fan of wrestling and one of the biggest stars the sport ever produced–Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
“He still plays with his wrestling figures like he’s younger younger,” she said. “That’s his cup of tea.”
Poindexter says she rushed to the crime scene after receiving a call but lost it after seeing crime tape.
“They didn’t want me to break down there,” she said. “But I had no choice.”
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