Mother celebrating birthday learns her brother's child killed her 13-year-old son: Police

A pistillate was connected abrogation celebrating her day erstwhile she said she learned her teenage lad was killed by a family subordinate successful Tennessee.

Jaquisha Beasley said it was her son, 13-year-old Ladarrius Payne, who was killed successful a shooting earlier this month. The Memphis Police Department told Law&Crime that officers charged a 15-year-old with reckless homicide successful the killing.

That teenage fishy is allegedly Beasley's brother's son.

On May 17, astatine astir 5:45 p.m., constabulary responded to a shooting telephone successful the 2700 artifact of Ketchum Place successful Memphis, Tennessee. When officers got there, they recovered a lad — aboriginal identified arsenic Ladarrius — "suffering from a gunshot wound."

He was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

Beasley said in a GoFundMe that she was successful New Orleans, Louisiana, astatine the clip celebrating her birthday, which was the time before. "I received the worst quality a parent could ever receive," she wrote.

"Nervous, shocked, and confused, I deed the road wishing I could marque it backmost to my son, Ladarrius," the parent added. "He was successful 7th people astatine Memphis Academy of Science & Engineering, an honors student, and besides played connected aggregate shot teams. My son's beingness was taken distant owed to weapon violence… I would ne'er ideate losing a child."

Beasley said that due to the fact that the probe is inactive going on, she has been fixed scant details. However, household members told section NBC affiliate WMC that the suspect is Beasley's nephew.

"You conscionable don't recognize however it tin spell this way," Kenna Miller, Beasley's older sister, said, adding that their household is broken. "It's benignant of similar 2 lives. I mislaid my nephew, my sister's son, and I mislaid my different nephew truly due to the fact that we don't cognize however his result is going to be."

Beasley said she and her children were searching for a location successful caller weeks and "finally recovered 1 and were successful the process of bidding connected it."

Everything has present changed.

"I had to intermission everything due to the fact that I had to usage our location wealth to wage for my son's funeral," she said successful the fundraiser. "At this moment, my 3 children and I are staying with household members."

The 15-year-old's sanction has not been released.