A Kentucky mother was shot and killed in front of her 8-year-old son on Louisville's east side early on Sunday morning.
Louisville Metro Police said that 27-year-old Angelina Pressley was fatally shot inside her home at Cooper Creek Village Apartments around 2:50am. The coroner said that Pressley died at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds.
Brandy Gregory, Pressley’s neighbor, said she ran to the apartment to help as soon as she heard the shots fired.
“I ran straight to her to see if I could feel her pulse because no one else was around except for her husband and her little boy,” Gregory told WAVE 3 News. She added that Pressley’s young son witnessed the shooting.
“He was hysterical just screaming, 'Mommy don't die! Mommy don't die! Mommy don't die!' and I was trying to calm him down,” she said.
Lieutenant Todd Kessinger said the 8-year-old was interviewed by police on Mother’s Day, but officials aren’t ready to release a suspect description.
“He told us that the thing the he loved more than anything in the world was spending time with his mother,” Kessinger told the news station. “He was exceptionally excited for today because he had bought her a necklace.”
As the LMPD Homocide unit undergoes its investigation, neighbors struggle to seek answers in the wake of the fatal shooting.
“It saddens me now that some child is going to be motherless because somebody was upset about who knows what, neighbor Wilma Chaddic told WHAS-TV. "It had to be so insignificant, especially with it being Mother’s Day. How do you shoot somebody on Mother’s Day?”
Gregory added that she did not know Pressley well, but knows she will never forget the tragedy.
“Knowing that it was right before Mother's Day, and he lost his mom… that could've easily have been me and my boyfriend and my daughter.”
