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‘Speak No Evil’ homicide case still unsolved 2 years later

Shonda Mason stands next to teddy bears she and her daughter placed at the site where her son Eric Fluellen's body was found on 13th Avenue.
Shonda Mason stands next to teddy bears she and her daughter placed at the site where her son Eric Fluellen's body was found on 13th Avenue. Shonda Mason stands next to teddy bears she and her daughter placed at the site where her son Eric Fluellen's body was found on 13th Avenue.

Shonda Mason thought she might buy some balloons and let them go Thursday, two years to the day after her 18-year-old son was shot to death on 13th Avenue.

Two years since the phone call when her daughter said, “Eric is dead.”

Two years, and Eric Fluellen’s homicide case is still unsolved.

Time hasn’t healed anything.

“It’s going to be a while before it gets easier,” Mason said. “It doesn’t get eased up.”