HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- As police search for clues in a 16-year-old boy's murder, the teen's mother is talking only to ABC13.

Police say 16-year-old Franklin Torres Corcho was stabbed to death. His body was found along the Katy Freeway in The Heights, according to law enforcement.

The Houston Police Department is sharing a photo of a man they're calling a person of interest.

Investigators say he was with Franklin before he was killed.

The victim's mom, Yurleidis Paola Corcho, says no parent should ever have to bury their child.

Corcho told ABC13 she tried everything she could to get her son away from a life of drugs, taking him to countless cities in her home country, Colombia, to get rehab. She says she moved him all the way to the United States in an attempt to get him help here,

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