In less than a month, one Indiana mother lost not one but two sons in separate shootings.
19-year-old Donovan Williams was the first member of his family to go to college. He was home on break when he ended up a victim of homicide. What’s worse — he had just come home to console his mother over the loss of his brother, Dominique Wright.
Dominique had been exchanging gunfire with another man on the highway. Police later found the man, Terrill K. Fenderson, dead in an alley.
Dominique had been involved in a previous shooting, in 2012, but he was working to better his life by taking classes online. He had also just welcomed a new baby into his world eight months prior to his death.
After his brother’s death, Donovan arrived home from college to comfort his mother, and that’s when, according to his mother, he “just got caught up in a horrible incident.”
Andrew Wright, the boy’s mother, said that he was quick to smile and a bright young man. “He was a loving, supportive young man with a bright future ahead of him,” she said. “He was warm, funny, and affectionate. He loved to give hugs. College had always been a goal for him. He was just trying to get his life started.”
She does not believe Donovan’s death is linked to his brother’s.
The family has had to launch a GoFundMe campaign to pay for the funeral so soon after Dominique’s.