Family, friends, and classmates gathered on Friday night to remember a high school student who was shot and killed last month while walking to school.
It took place in the city's Tioga-Nicetown section, and it doubled as a call for peace and new measures to end gun violence. At the event, the victim's mother stepped out in front of TV cameras to ask the public for help in solving her son's murder."I can't get him back, nothing that can ever be done can bring my son back to me," cried Wytina Burnside-Weedon.
Burnside-Weedon was surrounded by her family, friends, and The Neighborhood Crusade Inc. at the very spot where her son, 15-year-old Devin Weedon, was killed. She found the unimaginable courage to pick up the microphone and let the city know how she feels about the four suspects wanted by police.Police say Devin Weedon was fatally shot on his walk to Simon Gratz High School Mastery Charter.At least one of the suspects pulled a gun and fatally shot the 15-year-old."For there to be stronger consequences for juveniles who carry guns," she said. "Ban ski masks, bring back the stop and frisk. All school zone cameras need to be working.