Mother Loses Two Sons to Gun Violence in 3 Weeks in East Oakland

[EducatedBrothaFromTheBank]

Mother of second Oakland homicide victim in three weeks: 'I have no more kids'

http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_24951738/mother-second-oakland-homicide-victim-month-i-have

OAKLAND -- For the second time in three weeks, Dinyal New is preparing to bury a slain son.

On Monday, she wept as she placed flowers on the East Oakland sidewalk near where her 19-year-old son and his best friend were shot dead. New kicked at the broken glass at the double homicide scene, still numb from burying her 13-year-old just four days earlier.

"I have no more kids," New told reporters.

Each son was killed within blocks of New's East Oakland home.

Her heartbreak began on New Year's Eve, when Lee Weathersby III was fatally shot while walking home. Earlier in the day, he had attended a party at the Boys & Girls Club of Oakland on International Boulevard. He died in the early morning hours of New Year's Day.

Lee was a popular student who played basketball and was a drummer in the school band.

On Sunday afternoon, his older brother, Lamar Broussard, and Derryck Harris, both 19, were shot and killed while driving, marking the city's fourth and fifth homicides of 2014.

As she stood at the site where Broussard died, New said she could not imagine a link between the killings of her sons and said no one outside the family knew they were brothers.

Investigators have not ruled out the possibility that Sunday's homicides are linked to an ongoing dispute over the death of the younger brother. The shooting was not random, authorities said. No arrests have been made.

Broussard and Harris left New's home about 2:15 p.m to go pay New's cellphone bill, the mother said. They did not get far -- some two blocks -- before family and friends say gunmen ambushed them, unloading a hail of gunfire on the car.

Shakia Green, Broussard's cousin, said she believes the gunmen were watching for the pair of 19-year-olds.

"This is just back-to-back for me," Green, of Oakland, said, sharing the pain of dealing with another death. "I can't do it."

Harris' family could not be reached Monday.

A makeshift memorial marked the shooting scene Monday. Friends and family brought stuffed animals, left notes and lit candles. The teens' nicknames "MarMar" and "Lil D" were spelled out in tea lights.

The two had been friends since they were toddlers and considered each other "godbrothers," family and friends said.

Broussard had recently re-enrolled at Laney College, where he planned to study music. He dreamed of someday starting his own business, New said. Classes begin Tuesday.

Family members were also in the process of helping Broussard move to another part of Oakland to help him escape the violence of his neighborhood. The mother said both her sons were "caring" and "God-fearing boys."

She called on witnesses to the three killings to step forward to help detectives make arrests. New also said she hopes there will be no retaliation for her sons' killings, urging that her sons' killers be tried in the courts -- not on the streets.

Broussard attended his younger brother's funeral last week. He was also the one who identified his brother for authorities.

New said she can't bring herself to look at her sons' bodies.

"I don't even have the courage to go and identify my baby," she said. "Somebody else has to go because I just have to remember them exactly the way they were."

 

[MAKAVELI25]

Damn. God bless

 

[intruder]

Sad shyt man

I swear when i watch First 48 it's watching the mothers and test of the family that really gets to me. Just like that episode when the mother of the victim and his murderer were both crying while hugging each other.

I chocked up watching that shyt

 

[Wild self]

and people call those killers "real nikkaz" that get praise

 

[Flay Mayweather]

Watch how someone come in and say how real they are out there

as if its a thing to be proud of

 

[kp404]

Damn imagine being that mother and what's going on in her head and heart...that is some unfathomable pain :sadnino:

 

[Inglewood]

2 sons killed within weeks of eachother. I don't know what I'll do if that happened to me.

 

[Just like bruddas]

Ricky and dough boy in real life

 

[Playeroni]

Sad shyt man

I swear when i watch First 48 it's watching the mothers and test of the family that really gets to me. Just like that episode when the mother of the victim and his murderer were both crying while hugging each other.

I chocked up watching that shyt

The one in Miami with the super ratchet mom with pink hair or some shyt? That was the last one I watched. I can't take seeing stuff like that anymore. Used to be my favorite show too

 

[FaTaL]

terrible

i mean if u live in a bad neighborhood u gotta get out of there somehow

 

[intruder]

The one in Miami with the super ratchet mom with pink hair or some shyt? That was the last one I watched. I can't take seeing stuff like that anymore. Used to be my favorite show too

Yeah that one. shyt was just touching to see those two women hug and cry together even tho one's son killed the other one's son. These women put up with a lot of bullshyt in this world and get so little credit

 

[Matt504]

The one in Miami with the super ratchet mom with pink hair or some shyt? That was the last one I watched. I can't take seeing stuff like that anymore. Used to be my favorite show too

same here, I can't even bring myself to watch it anymore. I used to watch episodes back to back but now it drains all the energy outta me to watch a single episode.

that's how I know my love for black people is genuinely growing stronger because it literally hurts me to see us in this condition.

 

[MikelArteta]

terrible

i mean if u live in a bad neighborhood u gotta get out of there somehow

not that easy, especially if it's government housing the waiting lists are long as hell.

I feel it for this family.

 

[Jahmal]

Live in the hood brehs

 

[Jayou Ayen]

Watch how someone come in and say how real they are out there

as if its a thing to be proud of

Two of my cousins (brothers) were killed in Oakland.
I remember seeing a bunch of their a$$hole "friends" wearing Stop Snitching shirts and other stupid shyt like that to the service.
I feel like they were almost happy to be involved in some real life tragedy.
Now days, I don't see any of those bytch ass fakkits when I visit my cousins at the cemetery on their anniversaries.
Hopefully they've grown out of that childish mentality.



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