6-year-old Ni-Shawn Moore was shot off his bicycle on a warm, sunny day as he rode near his home in Gwinnett County, GA on March 13.
Police say someone approached Ni-Shawn, right, and shot him point blank in the chest with a 22-caliber weapon.
Little Ni-Shawn could pass for singer Keyshia Cole‘s son, Daniel Hiram Gibson Jr., also age 6.
A 911 dispatch operator tried to talk a woman through the first aid procedure of applying a pressure bandage to Ni-Shawn’s wound. But the boy was in so much pain that he refused to let her touch him.
In another 911 recording, a frantic woman tells police the boy’s father and a group of men showed up at her home and threatened her.
The woman was hosting a backyard BBQ when Ni-Shawn was shot at about 6:18 p.m.
She said she didn’t know who shot him.
“I don’t know these people,” she told the dispatcher. “They came over with a big group, and we’re having a party. And they’re saying somebody shot their kid, and they’re going to come back and handle it.”
Ni-Shawn was discharged from Children’s Healthcare last week, but police say they have no lead on the suspect who shot him.
Which begs the question: where is Black Lives Matter? Do black lives only matter when they can be used as pawns to make political statements?
Would the suspect be caught by now if Ni-Shawn’s black life mattered?
Thank you to the AJC.com for keeping the spotlight on this story. The AJC has written 3 articles so far on Ni-Shawn. Imagine the hoopla on Black urban blogs and media if Ni-Shawn had been shot by a white cop.
Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call Gwinnett police at 770-513-5300 or Crime Stoppers at 404-577-TIPS. A $2,000 reward is being offered for information. You can remain anonymous.
