MINNEAPOLIS _ A Minneapolis mother grieving the loss of her 19-year-old son to gunfire said she spent her birthday arranging his funeral.
Wanya Corey was wounded by gunfire shortly before 3 p.m. Sunday near N. Plymouth and Logan avenues, a couple blocks from the Fourth Precinct police headquarters, according to a statement from his mother on a GoFundMe fundraising webpage.
Police have announced no arrests in this homicide, which is one of 68 so far this year.
"We stand by the side of Khalilah Corey, the grieving mother of Wanya Corey, who's dream was snatched in north Minneapolis," Lisa Clemons, a retired Minneapolis police sergeant and director of A Mothers Love Initiative, wrote on GoFundMe.
The posting included a statement from Khalilah Corey, who said she is an early childhood teacher and single mother of five.
"We moved from Chicago Illinois to Minneapolis to give my children a better life, only to have my son taken away from me at such a young age due to senseless violence," she wrote Wednesday. "The tragedy of losing a child is unexplainable."
And instead of the mother celebrating her 36th birthday Wednesday, she said, "I'm spending it planning my 19-year-old son's funeral. My heart is broken."
She added that Wanya was killed on one son's 12th birthday and 10 days before another son's 17th birthday.
"Our family needs to grieve and work on moving out of the neighborhood," she wrote. "Please pray for me and my surviving children."
