Post by Scumhunter on Oct 14, 2016 0:29:11 GMT -5
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From the Oregonian website:
Pamela Cyrilien's son would have turned 36 years old this week.
But someone killed him three years ago in North Portland and his family still doesn't know who.
Donté Alwakeel Young was shot in the head Oct. 7, 2013, during a fight outside his home in the 9500 block of North Burr Avenue.
Portland police, on the anniversary of his death, repeated a request for help and offered a $2,500 reward through CrimeStoppers of Oregon.
Cyrilien last spoke to her son on his birthday, three days before he was killed.
"He told me he loved me," Cyrilien said Friday from a suburb outside Houston, "and we were planning a trip on Thanksgiving to L.A. to visit family. It would have been the first time in 15 years."
Cyrilien said her son had arrived in Portland four months earlier with his 10-month-old son to live with the mother of his oldest son. The day of his killing, Young had walked out of his home to stick up for a neighborhood friend as a group of people arrived to fight the friend, she said.
"It was some beef they had with one individual," Cyrilien said. "My son was trying to be a hero."
Police searched for suspects – described as 17- to 18-year-olds who scattered – but found none. Homicide detectives were called to investigate, and gang outreach workers arrived at the scene as well.
Cyrilien said she flew to Portland from Houston immediately after his killing and spoke to as many neighbors as she could. Some people gave her leads, others contacted her through social media, she said.
She turned all information and names she learned to police, but the problem: No one wants to talk to detectives.
"Here it is three years later," she said. "Nobody knows nothing. Nobody saw nothing. It makes me very angry. I'm still angry today. My soul will not rest until the person who murdered my son is behind bars."
Cyrilien is raising Isaiah Jamar Young, now 3, the youngest of the two boys. He also left behind Kahlil Jamal Young, 11, who lives in Portland with his mother, LaToya Neasly, and E'Charey Neasly, 14, who he considered his daughter, Cyrilien said. Donté Young was also close to his younger sister who lives in Houston.
His birthday is a hard day for Cyrilien.
"I just wish that somebody can find it in their heart to come forward," she said, "and let the detectives know you know who the killer is."
The Oregonian/OregonLive reported on the shooting three years ago:
Police and CrimeStoppers have offered the reward leading to an arrest in Young's death. Crimestoppers accepts anonymous tips online or by phone at by phone at 503-823-4357.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2016/10/police_mother_ask_for_help_in.html
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