ATLANTA — A community is working to find a way to move a mother and her children out of Atlanta’s West End neighborhood after a deadly double shooting on Election Day.
The gunfire left Raquavious Ferguson,18, dead and a 14-year-old in critical condition.
It happened near Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard.
Ferguson’s family said he was out playing basketball when bullets began flying around 4:15 p.m. in the afternoon.
“He lives three minutes from here. His mother came to the scene, and Ms. Shayla saw her son face down and not being tended to,” said Keith Lewis.
Lewis operates an organization called I am a Father F1rst. He mentored her son, Raq, for six years.
“He had to grow up fast, real fast,” said Lewis. “Since he was 14 years old, he had to be a partial provider for a household, you know what I mean?”
Lewis met Channel 2′s Courtney Francisco Sunday where the shooting happened to discuss efforts to move the Ferguson family to a spot they feel safer.
“This is a spot you ride through, you don’t stand in,” said Lewis. “This is the longest I’ve stood here in 25 years.”