Two young men, Therrell Jackson Jr. and Charles Sanders were killed in 2024 and 2025 in the Northland.

Amber O'Connell went back to the scene of where her 17-year-old son, Therrell, known to her family as TJ, took his last breath on Northeast Excelsior Street in Avondale.

"I miss my son," she said. "He was my baby my only boy."

O'Connell had a memorial for her son in the spot where he was killed that she checked on from time to time.

Someone removed it, she said.

It's been a rough year of grief for her family as they wait for a call from detectives that they've found who is responsible for TJ's death.

"I kinda felt like I lost hope," O'Connell. "There's still no answers. I still don't know."

Little did O'Connell know, she would meet someone else who understands her pain a year later

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