TACOMA, Wash. — A Tacoma mother is speaking out after her 12-year-old son was found dead earlier this month inside a senior living complex.

Castonya Taylor said her son, Preston James Hemingway-Lux, died Sept. 19 in a unit at the Vintage at Tacoma apartments, where they had been staying with a friend.

“It was me and Preston against the world. Most of the time everything together,” Taylor told KING 5.

Taylor said she tried to wake her son for school that morning, but he told her he was too tired — something he had also mentioned the night before. Hours later, she found him unresponsive in the bedroom with a small amount of blood near his nose and mouth.

“He didn’t move at all. So I said, Preston. And then I got down next to him, and when I shook him, he was like heavy. And I just starte

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