Teen's Family Wants Answers

There are still a number of unanswered questions more than a day after a police officer shot a fifteen year old on 4th Avenue.

A day after police swarmed 4th Avenue in response to the fatal shooting things appear normal at first glance.

But if you take a closer look, you can see an increased police presence and a family in pain.

"He just a baby, he ain't nothing but fifteen years old," Robbie Boyd, Alonzo O'Kelley Jr.'s great-grandmother, says. "He ain't get a chance to see what life is all about."

Boyd tells us she saw her great-grandson every day including yesterday. Police tell us that's when Housing Authority Officer Erik Reeves felt threatened and then shot O'Kelley after the fifteen year old did not yield his weapon.

"And placement of the shots that's going to come out further more," Housing Authority Chief Felix Vess says.

But a lot of anger and emotion came out O'Kelley's family members just hours after his death.

"He threw the gun and he ran like fifty yards before he even shot him," Dominique Harper, O'Kelley's brother, told us last night in front of Erlanger.

"He's fifteen, I ain't saying he was not angel but all I'm saying is four times, they saying he was shot four times in the back," Gloria Duncan, O'Kelley's mother, says.

All that's left of the crime scene today is police tape and flowers which someone has placed on a tree across the street from where this shooting happened last night. O'Kelley's family tells us the mourning has just started for them while they continue to search for answers.

"I want them to speak out and tell the truth on what they're saying because he a child a baby," Boyd says.

A baby who Boyd says she helped raise and now has to mourn.

"It's just all a matter in God's hands you know God don't make no mistake. I guess that still won't bring my grandson back," Boyd says.

O'Kelley's family members are planning his funeral arrangement but tell us they are really looking forward to getting his autopsy results back which should indicated where he was shot.