Loved ones gathered at the very spot where 13-year-old Orie Dodson was shot and killed in Gary. Indiana, as police still searching for his shooter.
Family and friends gathered Sunday at the very spot where 13-year-old Orie Dodson was shot and killed, as police still searching for his shooter."We're feeling a burden and we're feeling a pain, oh God, on what happened to an innocent life, Oh God! He was only 13 years old," one woman prayed. "Lord, we're praying on justice to be done."
A desperate plea shouted through the prayer circle as dozens came together to remember a life cut short. "I hate that this happened to him, but it did, and I want everybody to pray for me," said the boy's mother, Latrice Dodson.on 15th and Lincoln in Gary.outside of a home," said Larona Carter, the minister at Power and Light Church
Gary Mayor Jerome Prince embraced Orie's mother as she prepares to bury her second son taken by gun violence. "Whenever we hear of violent acts of crime, we're certainly all are stunned and, sort of, stopped in our tracks," Mayor Prince said."I don't hear noise in the house no more. I wish I could hear those noises again," said Orie's brother, Theon Dodson. "I never wanted my brother to go. Every time he leaves the house I always cry because I think something's going to happen. Cause he's always leaving the house. I can't even say it.
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