DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) — The mourning family of a motorcyclist is calling for justice after a driver hit him and left him to die on a street in downtown Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
“I really wished that he had just stopped to check on him and call 911 to help him. This would’ve been a different situation – maybe Kenli would’ve still been here,” said Lisa Mitchell, the mother of Kenli Black.<\/p>\n
Black worked at Brain Health USA, providing mental health care to those in need.<\/p>\n
On the night of July 12, he was on his way to provide aid for someone when his motorcycle was swiped near Alameda Street.<\/p>\n
“He’s taken a valuable person away from the community, from our family.”<\/p>\n
“He sidewiped my son and just sent him sailing on his motorcycle – and he suffered a really horrible head injury.”<\/p>\n
After watching over her son for nearly six days in the hospital, Mitchell said her final goodbyes to her only son and made one final heartbreaking decision on July 18.<\/p>\n
“The machines were keeping him alive, so I made the decision just to turn it off,” she said.<\/p>\n
As the only boy out of seven sisters, the 33-year-old held a special place in his mother’s heart and now lives on through his art, which Mitchell so proudly displays on the walls in her home.<\/p>\n
“He loved to draw pictures on cardboard. He would tear off the ear of a piece of cardboard and then sketch out a picture.”<\/p>\n