Droves of community members have rallied around Sacramento County mother Brittani Frierson, but she still feels as if her wails and soul-shattering pain over her 10-year-old son’s shooting death don’t matter.
That’s because prosecutors declined to charge the alleged shooter, a 10-year-old boy, in the death of Keith Jhay “KJ” Frierson, saying there was no malice in the incident.
Frierson and her family disagree.
KJ was shot in the neck over Christmas break in the Foothill Farms Hillsdale Oaks condo community, allegedly by another 10-year-old boy who the Frierson family says lost a bike race. His family held a vigil at that condo complex to remember his death and renew calls for justice Tuesday, one month after his Dec. 30 death.
“I am not even knowledgeable how I have to do it,” Frierson said. “But, I have to try. There has to be change. We have to do something. And I … have to try. Try to get in the right rooms, try to get the right people to hear me, try to get the right people to care.”