In this Monday, Jan. 20, 2014, photo, Dinyal New, center, mother of Lamar Broussard, who was killed Sunday with his best friend Derryck Harris, both 19, mourns the loss of the second son to have been killed this year at the scene of the killing on Longfellow Avenue in Oakland, Calif. Lee Weathersby III, 13, New’s other son, died on Jan. 1 after having been shot as he walked home from a New Year’s Eve party.OAKLAND, Calif. – A Northern California mother asked Tuesday that no retaliation occur after her two teenage sons were shot and killed within three weeks just blocks from her home.
Dinyal New made her plea two days after she laid flowers at a growing makeshift memorial in a quiet neighborhood in east Oakland where her oldest son, 19-year-old Lamar Broussard, and a childhood friend were shot and killed on Sunday – just three days after burying her youngest son.
“You know what my retaliation will be? To see whoever did this be convicted and sentenced in a courtroom,” New said. “No, no, no. Please, no retaliation.”
New’s youngest son, 13-year-old Lee Weathersby III, was shot about a mile away on New Year’s Eve. He died the next day.
“All my boys are gone,” New, 41, said Tuesday as she again pleaded for witnesses who may know anything about the killings to contact police.