SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — The mother of a 15-year-old gunned down while driving in a Seminole County neighborhood Friday begged for his killer to come forward.
Tamar Harris was driving along Central Street at 3:30 p.m. when a gunman standing in the roadway shot at the vehicle, wounding Harris and causing him to crash into a light pole, deputies said.
"I want to know why. I want to know what happened,” said Jeanina Washington, the boy’s mother. “Who did this to my child?"
Harris, a sophomore student at Innovations Charter School, was about to visit his hospitalized grandmother when he was shot. Instead, he was brought to hospital, where he died.
"He didn't deserve to be killed,” Washington said. “He did not deserve to be killed the way he was killed."
Washington urges anyone who saw what happened to contact investigators.
"I just want justice. I just hope and pray that whoever did this to my baby [would] please come forward,” Washington said. “If it was your son, if it was your cousin, if it was your brother, you would want the same justice."
"All the other occupants in the vehicle fled on foot. We are still looking to determine who the driver possibly could be and who the other occupants could be," Kim Cannaday, of the Seminole County Sheriff's Office, said.
Investigators said they have received consistent leads and are interviewing someone Monday.
Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call Crimeline at 800-423-8477.
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