MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- On the top of the list of things a mother should never have to do what Marsha Mayes did on Friday in North Minneapolis; go door to door in her own neighborhood looking for someone who knows who killed her 3-year-old son, Terrell Mayes Jr.
"I'm praying it makes a difference and makes somebody come forward and say I did it; give me closure to it," Mayes said before going door to door with flyers and about 60 other volunteers doing the same asking for information about the crime.
Terrell Mayes Jr. was shot the day after Christmas in his home.
His family says he was running to his hiding place, the one he was told to go to when he heard shots fired outside.
He was on his way when a bullet penetrated the wall of the house and hit Terrell in the head.
"I am a lot of things but to sum it up at all, I'm angry," Marsha Mayes said Friday.
Marsha and volunteers from all over Minneapolis descended upon the four block area near 2600 Colfax Ave. North that Terrell was shot and handed out flyers hoping beyond all else that someone who knows something will see one and come forward.
Police have no suspects.
"That is what we want, someone to do the right thing. You had a gun and you used it wrong. Do the right thing," community activist V.J. Smith said.
This case has to move beyond its crime scene.
It has to move people, to move people to act, to donate to the reward fund, to say no more to this kind of vicious cycle of senseless killing.
"If you care about family, you care about this homicide," Smith said.
Volunteers today showed they aren't giving up.
And Terrell's mother she clearly isn't going anywhere because she deserves justice after every single semblance of what is just was taken from her, from her son in their own home.
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