May 5th 2009: my 13-year-old son, Draysean, was shot in his head.
It was at the end of the school year, right before graduation, and my son and some friends took it upon themselves to have a Jr. High School “ditch day”.
So my son was sitting with a group of Jr. High School kids in the front yard of a house around the corner from my son’s school. A rival gang member of that neighborhood came running down the street shooting into the crowd of kids killing my son and another, Andrew Peppers (16).
Draysean was not in a gang and was an honor roll student according the principle and teachers at Roosevelt Middle School. The school seemed not to find it strange that an honor roll student was at school in the morning then disappeared. Administrators never bothered to call his mother to inform her that her son was not in attendance.
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