The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Officewrote on Facebookthat police responded to a call on July 25 about an “unresponsive juvenile with an apparent gunshot wound,” who died two days later at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in Fayetteville.
The department’s Special Victims Unit detectives filed a complaint to the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) on Friday to charge the boy with one count of manslaughter and two counts of larceny of a firearm.
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Jenesis’ father, Fon Dockery, spoke out at the press conference, stating, “This has been a horrible nightmare, [it] still doesn’t feel real. It’s hard to put into words how we’re trying to navigate, three weeks later, for something to be done. We wore orange pins on the day we buried our daughter — for gun violence awareness.”
He continued: “Because as much as we want justice for our daughter, this is something no parent should ever have to do. We thank the community, and we ask that you continue to support and continue to reach out until the full hand of the law is exacted with justice for our Jenesis.”
Dockery also reflected on the tragedy of losing his daughter to Fayetteville news outletCBS17-WNCN, saying, “She just loved and enjoyed even the smallest things in life.”
“We now have to find how to adapt to remembering her but not totally stopping our lives,” he added.
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source: people.com
