MATHIS, Texas — "I know you didn't mean to hurt mama's heart... but you did,” Stephanie Black said to a photo of her son, Deshoune Pope. Mathis mother turns tragedy into gun safety warning after son's death

Deshoune, just 14 years old, died Saturday in what Mathis Police are calling an accidental shooting on the 800 block of Olivo Street.

His mother says he left to hang out with friends that day — but never came home.

According to Black, her son was with four friends when things went terribly wrong.

"Four of the boys have told me we were going fishing, we were getting ready to go fishing and there was a gun and he picked it up,” she said.

That gun — and a single moment — would change everything.

"And I know my kid, he went to take a picture holding that gun. I don't know how and wha

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