A New York City mother is asking for a stronger police presence after her son’s death.
Eve Hendricks’s son Brandon Hendricks-Ellison was killed in June 2020 after graduating high school. The basketball star died in the Bronx after being shot in the neck, police said at the time.
“No mother should bury their child,” Hendricks said Tuesday. “Every child has a bright future. Gun violence should not be the end of a child’s life.”
Hendricks-Ellison, who was preparing to attend college that coming fall, had a road named after him — Brandon Hendricks-Ellison Boulevard. James Monroe High School, where he was a student, also dedicated a scholarship fund in his name.
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Before gun violence killed her son, it didn’t affect her, Hendricks added.
“Now that I’m living it, I just don’t see and think it is right for any other parent to live this way, to feel this way — to feel such pain, such agony,” she said on Fox News.
She helped lead a rally Sunday and called for more police attention.
The weekend Hendricks-Ellison was murdered, police had reportedly responded to at least 25 shootings citywide.
Although the city experiences a high crime rate, it somewhat decreased between 2020 and 2021. By August, murder was down 8.6% compared to the previous August, and overall crime decreased by 5.4%, city officials said in September.
Still, at least 20 children have been killed in New York City in 2021.
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“We demand more police officers on the street. We demand them to arrest kids — to put them in jail,” Hendricks said. “If you are big enough to pull a trigger, you are big enough to serve the time.”
