An Indiana mother was shot and killed just days after burying her 5-year-old son, who was also shot and killed, according to authorities.
“I don’t know if I have any tears left,” said Scott Ruszkowski, South Bend Police Chief, as he confirmed the double loss for the same family this month to WSBT.
On Thursday last week, the 32-year-old mother, Kaylynn Davidson, had buried her 5-year-old son Kyler Jackson after the boy died from being accidentally shot by a 9-year-old nephew, the outlet said.
Then on Tuesday night this week— five days after burying Jackson — the mother was herself gunned down during a fight outside a restaurant, police confirmed.
“I can’t even imagine or fathom what that family is going to have to contend with from here on out,” Ruszkowski told the outlet of the family “doubly affected” and “still reeling.”
Councilman Pastor Canneth Lee, who led the young boy’s funeral and broke the sad news of his mom’s death to the rest of the family, stressed that it was also a trauma for Jackson’s cousin, who accidentally shot him on May 1.
“They have had three tragedies: Kyler, the nephew and now Kyler’s mom,” Lee told the station.
“This is a tragedy for our city because violence is a disease,” the pastor said.
Detectives did not provide the exact details on how the youngster was shot, other than calling it a “tragic accident,” the South Bend Tribune noted.
An attorney for the family, Hamid Saahir, told the Tribune, “Kyler died from an unfortunate circumstance involving children with access to handguns.” However, the attorney did not elaborate on how the children got their hands on the weapon.
On Tuesday, late Jackson’s still-devastated mother was caught on camera exiting an eatery and hitting another woman, with “multiple people” attempting to break up the fight, according to the Tribune.
The victim pulled a handgun and fired “multiple shots” at a fleeing Davidson, before walking back into the restaurant, the paper said, citing court documents.
The 26-year-old gunwoman, Kimarie Wright, was arrested and charged with murder and manslaughter, the Tribune said.
“While the evidence suggests that the victim may have engaged in a physical altercation with the defendant, due to the lack of imminent threat toward Wright or a third person, the prosecutor’s office did not find that the homicide was justifiable,” prosecutors said.
