An Oakland mother is enduring unfathomable pain and heartbreak after her only two children have been murdered less than 20 days apart.
Her youngest son, who was only 13 years old, was shot and killed on New Year’s Eve on 104th avenue near Walnut Street. Her oldest son murdered just this past Sunday, near the intersection of 100th Avenue and Longfellow, 19 days after her 13-year-old was killed.
“Hopefully the community people will come forward,” Dinyal New said, “because how can a mother experience two losses within 19 days? Both her kids. It’s horrible.” New said no words can describe her grief. She is mourning the death of her 19-year-old son Lamar Broussard less than a week after burying her youngest son, Lee Weathersby. He was only 13 years old.
“Somebody’s failing these kids,” New said. “They feel like it’s OK to murder these kids. They have no remorse or understanding afterwards.” Harris’s mother Tameka Rothchild is in shock. “I love my son, and unfortunately people out here are heartless,” Rothchild said. “They don’t have no morals. They don’t have no type of values. They don’t care about a human being.”
New implores the community to come forward with information about both her sons’ murders. She also had another request.
“What I do ask is for no retaliation at all,” New said. “I want to see this in the courts. I want retaliation in the court system. Please, no retaliation.”
Oakland police said they have not identified any suspects in the shooting deaths.
