"It's a heartache, a hurt, and a pain that you can't describe or explain. And you never get over it. People say, oh, it's gonna get better. I'm still looking for when," said Cynthia Sykes.

At 10:22 p.m. on October 14, 2023, Walter Sykes III and a passenger were sitting in his car at Patrick and 6th Streets in Petersburg when both men were shot multiple times.

"The manner that my son was taken away from us, no dog shouldn't have been done like that," Sykes said.

Sources say Sykes III was hit more than a dozen times and pronounced dead on scene. His passenger went to the hospital and survived.

Cynthia Sykes believes the passenger knows exactly what happened and is frustrated that detectives haven't pressed him harder for information.

"When the detectives went to question that person whi

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