RICHMOND, VA. – It’s tough enough to be ten, and when you add to it the life without a father due to violence, it’s heartbreaking.
“He wanted to bring me and my sister something to eat,” said Amaya Brown.
The little girl says she almost feels guilty knowing that a food run brought her father into a dangerous neighborhood.
Antonio Brown was found shot dead in his car in the Tiger Mart parking lot on Hill Street in Gilpin Court early one afternoon last year.
Two men have been arrested so far, but on the anniversary of his death, his mother believes others have important information.
“On March 29, 2020, my 28-year-old son Antonio Lewis Brown Jr. lost his life here,” said his mother, Ramona Brown. “It’s pointless. I’m standing where he was shot.” in his vehicle. “
Brown says two arrests were made, but there have been several setbacks.
“The coronavirus,” she said. “The pandemic stopped everything.”
Brown believes there are more people in this community who can help their son’s case by standing up and ruling out the possibility of their sons’ killers getting away with it.
She asks them to call the police.
“That’s what I need to get some kind of closure,” said Brown, choking back the tears.
And the closure, says little Amaya, only reminds her father that she is not coming home and how it used to be. “How he used to take care of me,” said the little girl.
Antonio Brown had three girls and one boy, all under the age of ten.
A year has passed but his kids say it still feels like it happened yesterday.
RELATED STORIES: Police Identify a man who was killed in a double shooting in Richmond