The mother of a 5-year-old North Carolina boy shot dead as he rode his bike outside his home, promised to get justice for her son, and said his accused killer “will rot in hell.”
Bonny Waddell took to Facebook to express her grief over the loss of her son Cannon Hinnant, who was playing at his father’s home in the town of Wilson on Sunday when he was allegedly shot in the head by neighbor Darius Sessoms.
“This man will answer me,” the grieving woman wrote in a post Tuesday.
‘That man will see me and my son through my face! This sorry excuse if a human will rot in hell. ”
She added, “My heart is taken away from me.”
Waddell said the suspect knew her son and how ‘loving’ he was because he lived next door to Cannon’s father, Austin Hinnant.
In another post, she wrote about Cannon’s heartbroken sisters, ages 7 and 8, who played with him the day he was murdered.
“They just lost a piece of the puzzle, their best friend, a piece of their heart,” Waddell wrote, asking for prayers for her daughters.
The devastated mother promised to go to gilded earth in her quest for justice for Cannon.
‘I will burn this land if it is what it will take to see [the alleged shooter] burn in hell, ‘she wrote. ‘I’m ready to turn this country upside down.
“We will get our justice and I will take down every damned body directly with him!”
Police did not provide a motive for the shooting, although they said it was not random.
A woman who claims to be a cousin of Cannon’s father created a GoFundMe page for the family and wrote in the bio that the boy was shot “because he was driving in his neighborhood yard.”
Witness Doris Lybrand told WRAL.com that Sessoms walked over to the little boy, put the gun to his head and pulled the tractor before returning to his own home.
“My first reaction was that he was playing with the kids,” Lybrand said. ‘For a second I thought,’ that can not happen. ‘People do not run across the street and kill children. ”
Sessoms, 25, was charged Monday with first-degree murder and is being held without restraint. His next due date is set for August 25.
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