HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) — “I wake up with him on my mind, and he’s the first thing that I think about. He’s the last thing that I think about when I go to bed…”
A mother, trying to describe the pain, as the community rallies around the family of Deangelo Osborne, one year after they were forced to say their final goodbye.
Tracy Richardson says her 25-year-old son was a youth football coach and employee of Newport News Shipyard. He became a victim of gun violence just days after rallying for victims’ rights, when he was killed in an early morning shooting Friday, April 11 in 2025 at the Karma Restaurant and Lounge parking lot.
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“I have to live the way he lived, and lived on Cloud 9, okay. Everything he did was big,” said Tracy Richardson, Osborne’s mother.
This mother recalled a moment when one of her grandchildren asked if he, too, could go to heaven…