For the first time since her 16\u2011year\u2011old son was shot and killed last week, Abigail Byfield is sharing her grief \u2014 and her urgent call for justice.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not real,\u201d said Byfield. \u201cI just want to tell him that I love him so much and we miss him so much\u2026 I\u2019m still looking for him to come home from school.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marquise was shot inside a corner store shortly after leaving school. His mother describes him as a loving, typical teenager who loved video games and was preparing for his first summer job. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe didn\u2019t deserve any of this,” said Byfield. “He was just trying to come home from school. Just a normal teenager.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police have not released details about the shooter. Byfield says the only information she\u2019s heard is that the suspect may also be a young person.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s pleading for anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow are these kids obtaining guns? questioned Byfield. “Marquise deserves justice. If anybody has anything, say something. Help get justice for my baby.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe see so much violence happening right before spring and summer. Now is the opportunity to have clergy outside the four walls and in the street.\u201d<\/p>\n
Byfield says her last interaction with her son was heartbreakingly ordinary.<\/p>\n
\u201cI told him I loved him and I\u2019d see him later,” said Byfield. “He took the trash out. That\u2019s the last time he\u2019ll take the trash out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time since her 16\u2011year\u2011old son was shot and killed last week, Abigail Byfield is sharing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-216280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}