Mother seeks answers after police release homicide suspect's car
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A mother is still searching for answers after police released a suspect vehicle involved in the fatal shooting of her 21-year-old son after nearly two years.
Her only son, Dominic O'Neal, is gone, and she says she doesn't know why.
'All I hear is the gunshots in my head every day,' said Barbara O'Neal, mother.
On October 4, 2023, Dominic was leaving his South Memphis home to visit his girlfriend at Regional One, who was about to go into labor with their child.
Memphis Police say they were called to a shooting on Tate Avenue and McKinley Street around 8 a.m. Dominic was pronounced dead on the scene.
TAKE A LOOK: Photo of homicide suspect's car released
A man was walking in the area when police say unknown suspect(s) stopped nearby in a white Ford Fusion and shot him. The suspect(s) are accused of leaving the scene, going south on McKinley Street in the Ford Fusion.
'I watched him walk all the way up the street and turned the corner and walk till I couldn't see him walk no more,' said the mother. 'And I went back in the house. To get ready to put my clothes on, and I heard four gunshots.'
She said she saw her son lying on the ground, and she could not do anything but scream because she had just talked to him and seen him leave.
Last week, police sent out a picture of a small white Ford Fusion in the shooting. A nearby pastor told Barbara he saw the same car drive off that morning after the shooting.
Pastor Andrew Terry's church is right around the corner. He was heading there the morning that Dominic was shot.
'A little small car made a right turn. And just as it made the right turn, it came up on him,' said Pastor Terry.
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He says the windows on the car were tinted very dark, so you couldn't see who was inside.
'But I see him stop. He stopped. He stuck his head in that car,' said Pastor Terry. 'Just as I was passing the stop sign down there, I made that right to go toward the church. I heard two shots ring out.'
Pastor Terry went back and found Dominic on the ground, with a head wound.
'It's been a disaster. We just keep praying and having faith and hope that whomever killed him, it will. It will come out. That's all we can do,' said Barbara O'Neal.
Now, with a photo of the car that may have been involved, O'Neal's family is hoping someone will finally come forward with information.
If you have any information that could help police, call CrimeStoppers at 901-528-CASH.
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