Taking pictures victim's mother has information for son's at-large killer

Jenny Goldsberry

August 25, 10:02 PM August 25, 10:02 PM

The mom of a Thursday early morning capturing sufferer held a push conference hrs soon after police determined her 16-year-previous son.

Tiera Ervin lived near sufficient to the bus cease exactly where the taking pictures took put to hear the photographs that killed her son Temario Stokes Jr. and was the to start with on the scene. The associated gunman reportedly ran into the cornfields west of U.S. 31 and remains at massive, but Ervin did not see the suspect at the time, delivering a information to the gunman Thursday.

"You did not have to do my infant like that," Ervin explained. "You took my heart correct out my chest. I hope you locate peace inside by yourself."

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"He was at his bus quit heading to faculty when it transpired," Ervin claimed. "When I heard the pictures, I ran outside the house and observed my son lying on the floor, shot multiple times."

Stokes was on his way to university as a sophomore at Whiteland Community High School when he was shot and killed. Ervin stated he would typically come straight dwelling from college.

"He was not a undesirable child," his father, Temario Stokes Sr., said of his son. "All young children make lousy decisions at a person time, but he was not a undesirable child. He doesn’t deserve this."

Police noted the taking pictures appeared to be a qualified attack. The investigation is even now open, with Indiana Point out Law enforcement making use of a helicopter and drones to consider and track down the suspect, who was final seen wearing a black hoodie.

Stokes was the oldest of three little ones.