GRANDVIEW, Mo. — Talisha White doesn’t know why someone would take the life of her teenage son, Tyson, right outside their apartment.
“He never hurt nobody. He wasn’t in no gang, nothing. He was just a good child,” White told 41 Action News.
Around 4:15 Tuesday afternoon, she heard a loud bang. Initially, she thought it was a maintenance man.
“And then the next thing you know his friend ran in and said, ‘Auntie, auntie, Tyson has been shot,’” White said.
Paramedics took the wounded 16-year-old boy from the Arbors Apartments to the hospital where he died.
Tyson’s passing brings heartache to his loved ones.
“It makes no sense,” Tameisha White, his aunt, said tearfully. “That wasn’t just a nephew to me. It was like a little brother, a little brother I never had.”
She added many people knew the young man who played football for Hickman Mills and worked at the Arby’s in Grandview.
Tyson’s mother believes his employment could have made him a target.
“There’s a lot of boys who are jealous of him because he got a job and they don’t, and I believe they were jealous of him,” Talisha White said.
Regardless of the motive, she wants whoever pulled the trigger caught.
“Turn yourself in. Help me, please, because he didn’t deserve this,” Talisha White said.
The family plans to hold a balloon release at the Arbors Apartments on Saturday at 2 p.m.
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