Labor Day Party ended in gunshots that left a 16-year-old Hillsboro High School student dead. It happened early Sunday morning. The family of the teen
pleaded with the community for help solving the crime, hoping someone with information ill come forward. Lamar Hughes' mother said two men proached her son at the party. One hit him over the head and held him at gunpoint. She. tried to save his life by jumping on top of him during the shooting. Michelle Hughes said, "He was just a typical
16-year-old ready to be grown. I still can't believe it." She watched the
incident happen in front of her eyes at the Edgehill public housing complex off
14th Avenue South. She was there visiting her sister and celebrating the holiday
weekend. She recalls trying to take the bullets for her son. Hughes stated, "I
was like a turtle like a shell on top of my son." She says it's what any mother
would do as two men approached her son and held him at gunpoint, adding,
"Because that was my son, and I was going to save his life no matter what."
The struggle to save him left her with a injured shoulder and a memory she
says she just can't shake. "He took my son away from me he took my son," said
Hughes.
pleaded with the community for help solving the crime, hoping someone with information ill come forward. Lamar Hughes' mother said two men proached her son at the party. One hit him over the head and held him at gunpoint. She. tried to save his life by jumping on top of him during the shooting. Michelle Hughes said, "He was just a typical
16-year-old ready to be grown. I still can't believe it." She watched the
incident happen in front of her eyes at the Edgehill public housing complex off
14th Avenue South. She was there visiting her sister and celebrating the holiday
weekend. She recalls trying to take the bullets for her son. Hughes stated, "I
was like a turtle like a shell on top of my son." She says it's what any mother
would do as two men approached her son and held him at gunpoint, adding,
"Because that was my son, and I was going to save his life no matter what."
The struggle to save him left her with a injured shoulder and a memory she
says she just can't shake. "He took my son away from me he took my son," said
Hughes.
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