'We had to turn our pain into purpose' | Mother honors son killed at off-campus NC A&T party

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Two North Carolina A&T students were gunned down at an off-campus party in 2016, lives full of promise, gone in an instant.

Now, over nine years later, the mother of one of those students, Ahmad Campbell, is sharing her story — not just of loss, but of purpose.

A phone call at 3 a.m., almost a decade ago, changed Alicia Campbell's life forever. A friend of her son Ahmad called her oldest son, delivering bad news.

“He [her oldest son] was like, ‘Mom, we gotta go to Greensboro.’ I said, ‘For what?’ He was like, ‘Ahmad has been shot,'" Alicia said.

Back in October of 2016 during North Carolina A&T’s Greatest Homecoming on Earth, police said her son and fellow Aggie, Alisia Diuedonne, were shot and killed off-campus on Circle Drive.

Nearly two years later, Lawrence Bair