DAYTON — A grieving mother is asking for answers nearly five months after her son was killed in a double murder.
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As reported on News Center 7 at 5, On July 18, police found 25-year-old Dejuan Hooker and 18-year-old Damarius Underwood dead in a car.
Police said there had been gunfire inside, but Hooker’s mother thinks he was the target of a robbery and host his life senselessly
“I need justice for my son, I have to have it and I’m never going to stop fighting for my child,” Nichole Roberts said.
Roberts got the call no parent ever wants to receive and rushed to the scene.
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She knew it was bad when she saw the crime scene tape and her son’s truck.
“He never robbed anybody, he never stole from anybody, he never tried to cause anyone harm,” Roberts said.
Roberts said that it’s her understanding there was some type of transaction before the shooting.
She was told it involved marijuana but police have not confirmed it.
She insists whoever was involved stepped into her son’s car and tried to rob him at gunpoint when the shooting took place.
Another man jumped out of the car and at least two others dragged that man away.
Police briefly detained one man but no one has been charged in her son’s death.
“Please come forward because DeJuan deserves justice. He deserves it, we deserve it,” Roberts said.
She said Hooker graduated from a construction apprenticeship with the Miami Valley AFL-CIO a couple of days before his death and had a job waiting.
“He should never have been taken in the way he was taken, so I would never wish this, where I’m sitting in this place, on any mother,” Roberts said.
Anonymous tips can be sent to Crime Stoppers by calling (937) 222-7867 or online at www.miamivalleycrimestoppers.com.
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