O’Neal Mosley, 24, fell in his mother’s, Darassalaam Mosley, arms in front of their Bedford-Stuyvesant home after he was shot on Saturday morning
A Brooklyn man was shot in front of his apartment on Saturday and managed to collapse into his mother’s arms before dying.
O’Neal Mosley, 24, fell in his mother’s, Darassalaam Mosley, arms in front of their Bedford-Stuyvesant home around 3.40am. O’Neal was shot in the torso and leg in front of the Armstrong houses.
‘He said, “Mom, they shot me. I’m dead,”‘ a devastated Mosley, shared with the New York Daily News. ‘He fell on the floor and I was kissing my son, doing CPR.’
According to neighbor, 17-year-old Karema Rincon, three shouts could be heard from outside but she ‘didn’t dare to look outside’ out of fear for her own safety.
She added: ‘I heard someone scream, “Why do you have a gun?” and then they just ran off.’
The matron Mosley had been sitting at her ground-floor home and jumped for the apartment door as soon as she heard the shots.
‘My (other son) said, “Don’t open the door!” I said, “My son is out there!”‘ she said.
And when the mother opened the door, her worst nightmares had come true when she saw her son bleeding from his stomach-area.
‘He said, “Mom, they shot me. I’m dead,”‘ his mother said, ‘He fell on the floor and I was kissing my son, doing CPR’
The neighborhood speculates O’Neal – who had just left a party in the neighborhood – was killed over a woman but his mother believes he was robbed
The heartbroken mother added: ‘I’m trying to find the bullet hole but it was in his stomach. I was hugging my son. I said, ‘”Please son, don’t die.”‘
And while O’Neal was rushed to Woodhull Hospital, he couldn’t be revived.
The grief-stricken mother needed the help of her family to support her while she was answering questions.
O’Neal had been an honor roll student at the Urban Assembly School for Musics and Arts.
Known for his anime and map drawings, he had been working at a Target in the area, according to relatives.
He had just been paid and gotten his tax return back, with his step-father asserting that the man had $3,000 on him when he was shot
‘Never missed a day of school,’ his mother said. ‘He was the best kid.’
People from his neighborhood speculate that O’Neal – who had just left a party in the neighborhood – was killed over a woman but his mother believes he was robbed.
‘I was looking for his money,’ the mom said. She added that O’Neal had not only just been paid from his job but he had also just received his tax return.
His step-father, Jeremy Mosley, claims that O’Neal had at least $3,000 on him at the time he was killed.
‘It was one of his buddies that he drinks with, I guarantee that,’ he said. ‘He’s the only one that has a job so they’re trying to mooch off him.’
Mr Mosley added that ‘he started hanging out with the wrong crew.’
O’Neal had been an honor roll student at Urban Assembly School for Musics and Arts and worked at Target
‘Never missed a day of school,’ his mother said. ‘He was the best kid’