#LONGLIVEGERRIK

ON MONDAY JANUARY 25, 2016 AT 6:30 MY BIGGEST FEAR CAME TO REALITY. MY SON GERRIK THOMAS WAS A VICTIM OF A VIOLENT CRIME. GERRIK WAS WALKING TO MY GRANNY HOUSE FROM THE STORE WHEN SOMEONE APPROACHED HIM AND SHOT HIM. MY SON HAD JUST CALLED MY PHONE AT 6:24PM AND SAID THAT A DUDE BANGED ON HIM. I TALKED TO HIM FOR A COUPLE OF MINUTES NOT KNOWING THAT THIS WOULD BE THE LAST TIME I'LL HEAR MY SON VOICE. AT 6:33PM I RECEIVED A CALL FROM MY COUSIN/SISTER/BROTHER THAT I NEEDED TO GET TO MY GRANNY BLOCK AND I HEARD ALL THE CRYING IN THE BACKGROUND. AT THAT POINT I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG. I FELT IT IN MY HEART. MY STOMACH STARTED TO HURT AND MY LEGS WAS GETTING WEAK LIKE THEY WERE GOING TO COLLAPSE FROM UNDER ME. WHEN I REACH MY GRANNYS BLOCK THEY HAD ALREADY TAKEN MY SON TO CALIFORNIA HOSPITAL. ONCE I ARRIVED AT THE HOSPITAL, THE HOUR SEEMED LIKE A LIFETIME. THAT'S WHEN I LEARNED MY SON WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD, HE WENT INTO CARDIAC ARREST AND HAD EXPIRED. LATER, TO LEARN THAT LAFD PARAMEDIC HAD PICKED MY SON UP LIKE HE WAS A SACK OF POTATOES BY HIS SHIRT AND WAS DROPPED OFF THE STRETCHER AND ONTO HIS HEAD WHILE AT THE CRIME SCENE ON 54TH & 9TH AVE. MY SON GERRIK WAS A 21 YEAR OLD BLACK MAN THAT WORKED AS SECURITY, HE ATTENDED SCHOOL FOR NURSING AND WAS TRYING TO BE A INSPIRED RAPPER. I CAN SAY PROUDLY THAT GERRIK DID NOT GANG BANG