WOODBRIDGE, Va. ( DC News Now ) — The pain comes and goes each day but the reality hits hard for Jacob and Antoinette Walker.
Their son, Alberto Vasquez, was shot and killed in what turned out to be carjacking crime spree on Monday night that left another man critically injured.
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The gunman, Artell Cunningham, was killed by police in New Carrollton several hours later.
“It’s devastating,” Antoinette Walker told DC News Now. “Lack of sleep. Just trying to understand exactly what happened and why. Having to figure out how to share this with his daughters, who are only 10 and seven and just really getting an understanding of it because it’s just not understandable.”
A.J., which is the nickname his parents and friends called him, was the life of the party and always wore a perpetual smile and made friends wherever he went.
“He’s not a fighter. He’s never been that,” she said. “He’s just always been that loving child. I am now having to take pictures out (of) him to share with people that just didn’t know him … as a person.”