Brooklyn shooting victim dies in his mother’s arms
A 24-year-old man died in his mother’s arms after being shot outside his apartment in Brooklyn on Saturday.
“He said, ‘Mom, they shot me. I’m dead,’” Daressalaam Mosley, the devastated mother of victim O’Neal Mosley recounted. “He fell on the floor and I was kissing my son, doing CPR.”
Mosley was shot in the torso and the leg just before 4 am.
“I heard three (shots), and then I heard someone scream, ‘Why do you have a gun?’ and then they just ran off,” neighbor Karema Rincon, 17, said. “I didn’t dare to look outside because if they were to see me then something could have happened.”
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Mosley’s mother heard the shots as well and went to the door because she knew her son was outside.
“My (other son) said, ‘Don’t open the door!’ I said, ‘My son is out there!’” the grief-stricken mom said. She opened the door and found her son bleeding.
“I’m trying to find the bullet hole but it was in his stomach,” she said tearfully. “I was hugging my son. I said, ‘Please son, don’t die.’”
The shooting victim was rushed to the hospital but there was nothing doctors could do to save him.
No arrests have been made to date.
Mosley was an honor student at the Urban Assembly School for Music and Arts and was working at Target in Downtown Brooklyn according to relatives.
“Never missed a day of school,” his mother stated. “He was the best kid.”
Mosley was also a gifted artist who liked to draw anime, said his cousin Vashon Edwards, 21.
“He used to draw maps of the United States, maps of the world,” Edwards shared. “He wanted to join the Army.”
“Growing up, he always made me laugh,” Edwards went on. “He would make up funny dances for Grandma.”
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According to neighbors, the shooting victim had just left a party when he was shot, perhaps over a woman they speculated. Mosley’s mother believes her son was robbed.
“I was looking for his money,” the mom said, noting that O’Neal had just gotten paid and had recently received his tax return.
According to his stepfather, Mosley had at least $3,000 on him when he was killed.
“It was one of his buddies that he drinks with, I guarantee that,” Jeremy Mosley said. “He’s the only one that has a job so they’re trying to mooch off him.”
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“He started hanging out with the wrong crew,” his stepfather said of the shooting victim.
“He was a good kid. I never saw him cause any trouble,” said Annie Capellan, 49, who was shocked when she found out who had been shot.
“I thought they were talking about somebody else, but when I heard it was him…” she said, her words trailing off as she shook her head.
“People get angry — boom, boom, boom — people are killed for nothing.”
