Derrion's Mother Speaks & Killers Mother's React

The mother of Silvonus Shannon and Young girl at Derrion's Vigil

One mother tearfully said she could not bear to look at the video. The other regretfully acknowledged it was her son on the video depicting the fatal beating of Fenger High School student Derrion Albert, 16. "That's Gene. That's my son. I'm not going to lie about that," said Sherry Smith,the mother of Eugene Riley, 18, one of four teens charged inthe attack. "I do give my condolences to that family because (their) child shouldn't have lost his life over this." The families of Carson and Bailey could not be immediately reached, but Smith and Tamaray Shannon, Silvonus Shannon's mother, said there was a lot of tension at the school last week. She said her son had been chased out of school and stalked between classes by teens from the Ville.Smith, Riley's mother, said she pulled another son, Vashion Bullock,17, out of Fenger Wednesday because for safety reasons. Neither Riley nor Shannon have a criminal history, and both hold jobs, their attorney said. Carson was on probation for a 2008 robbery conviction, Peterson said. Smith believes that Riley was defending his brother in the fight. Shannon, who has not viewed the tape, said she doesn't believe her son would have stomped on Albert's head."Silvonus is not a bad kid," said Shannon, 40. "He was protecting himself. Silvonus is not what they are making him out to be." [source]

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One thing i must say, For the mother who lost her son's life this is unexplainable pain. However for the mother who's son were the killers, the pain is ALMOST as worse because they have to walk in Shame! One mother even said that her son was not a bad kid. What she fails to understand is, he may not be a bad kid because the choices we make as people never make us a bad person. What needs to be understood is MOST child will never be who they really are in the presence of their parents. Especially if they are involved in things that, they know they were raised better to do. "People are not what they think, how they feel or what they say..They are what they do!"-- M.D. Gordon Livingston I live by that saying!