A father in Raleigh, North Carolina, is grieving the loss of his only child, Cayden Alston-Arnold, who was shot and killed at his home, allegedly by teen boys he and his family believed were his friends. It has to be so hard to know the people likely responsible for your child’s death, especially when they had a sort of friendship. His father is speaking out about the pain of losing the teen, who still had so much life left to live. He also claimed that he knew the reason his son was killed was because of clothing he was trying to sell his alleged killers.
There is nothing that will bring the boy back, but the father knows violence isn’t the way forward for anyone.
The incident took place in broad daylight.
Officers from the Raleigh Police Department responded to a shooting around 11:50 a.m. on March 20, 2026, WRAL reported. They found a teenage boy, later identified as Cayden, with a gunshot wound…