A police woman responding to a fatal shooting arrived to find her own beloved son laying dead on the ground.
Mum Laquandia Cooley said she couldn't believe what she saw as she arrived to the scene of her son's slaying in the city of Hazlehurst in Mississippi, US, on Sunday night.
In an interview with local station W LBT, she said: “As we get out, I look and I was like, ‘This is my son, this is my son.’”
She was looking at her beloved boy, Charles Stewart Jr, 20, who was lying lifeless in the middle of the street after being shot in the head.
The cop added: “I couldn’t even believe what I was seeing. I was seeing my own son laying there on the ground dead. It was pretty much a panic. It was just, it was too much."
Charles Stewart, the victim's dad, said he was stunned why someone would want to kill his son - who was friendly and got on with everyone.
He told local media: “It’s traumatizing for the whole family. We’re just trying to cope day to day. Just trying to figure out why this happened and who could have done this."
Due to the victim being a relative of a working officer, the investigation was handed over to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.
Investigators are still working to understand the motive and circumstances leading up to the awful crime, according to reports.
The victim was already dead when his mother arrived at the scene.
Just days earlier further tragedy struck in the US state when three people were shot dead and four others injured at a New Year's Eve party last Friday.
Gunfire ripped through the party after a fight broke out among attendees shortly before midnight, according to local news site The Sun Herald.
Out of the seven partygoers struck, three were confirmed dead by the Harrison County Coroner.
Two died from their injuries at a nearby hospital. Another victim taken to a different hospital died in surgery.
One victim remains in critical condition at Memorial Hospital, while another three sustained non life-threatening injuries, reports say.
