America’s Gun Violence Epidemic: The Reality Of A 10-year-old Tragically Lost | Good Morning Britain

‘We cannot make it normal for a 10-year-old to shoot another 10-year-old.’

The mother of a 10-year-old boy allegedly shot dead by another 10-year-old after losing a bike race has told Good Morning Britain “there needs to be change” to address America’s gun violence epidemic. Keith “KJ” Frierson was struck by a single bullet in the neck and head in Sacramento. 53-year-old, Arkete Davis, has been charged in connection with his death. Noel Phillips reports.

Broadcast on 10/01/24

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I couldn’t even bring myself to touch him because I my son was gone he was laying in his own blood and my son was gone like I said I just fell to the I just fell to the ground I I just couldn’t even go to him I was next to

Him but I could not go to him cuz my he was gone he was gone for Britany Ferris the toll of America’s gun violence is just too heavy to bear he just walked out the door he wasn’t her 10-year-old son Kei also known as KJ was shot and killed while

Riding his bicycle just two weeks ago police say the shooter was allegedly another 10-year-old who had found a stolen gun in his father’s car I wish I could have had some type of incl Out Boy walked at that door and I just would have turned him around and just said let

Me just let me look at you even if it was one last time just let me look at you but I’m just I love him dearly and we going to miss him so much but then I’m not going to stop there will be Justice for my baby

And there will be change because we are not going to make it normal to where we live in a society where it is okay for a 10-year-old to kill a 10-year-old and nothing to be done that’s what I’m saying We Are Forever going to fight for

Him I know just from talking to you just how much he meant to you and I mean we look at him in your hands and we see that smile that he had is that something that you take comfort in yes um yeah uh this you know here we say that second

Child keep you on your toes like this was the one I was always out of my two boys in my business making sure I did what I was supposed to do even tell me you know it’s time for us to go to the gas station we got to go get some milk

Like this is this this yeah this boy and this smile the jokes he was always telling jokes he always want to make jokes at everybody but yeah this that smile he always had always had and what Memories do you have when you heard he had been shot I just ran I don’t

Remember even thinking anything in that moment I just ran and when I got to my child I just I just dropped to the ground and I I don’t remember stopping screaming I don’t even want to stop screaming and can you remember what was going through your mind at that point

All I keep saying is somebody say something somebody say what happened who did this what what happened that’s that’s all I could think was what happened he had just went outside he wasn’t even outside for 15 minutes I just what happened he just what happened that’s just that was it just what

Happened so the ambulance survived mhm they took him to hospital and when did you find out that he didn’t make it I knew I lost my baby when I went outside I mean that is when it when it set in you know but I knew I lost my

Baby when I went outside I knew I had lost him then the boy who is currently in elementary school won’t face any criminal charges but his 53-year-old dad has been arrested on dozens of felonies do you feel let down I feel very let down I feel

Failed by this system that they tell us they want us to trust these processes they want us to you know trust in these laws and and how they are all these laws apply for all the people and all this and that but but how can we when you are

Telling me to accept nothing to accept nothing and my baby is forever gone what does Justice look like for you right now there has to be change we cannot make it normal for us going forward for a 10-year-old to be able to shoot another a 10-year-old it has to be

Changed that that’s just going forward for me right now that’s what it looks like we try to create a narrative that um lifts up their loved one and proceed to get some kind of Justice whatever that Justice looks like Barry axius is a leading figure in the community and has been supporting KJ’s

Family so this is where KJ was shot right over in this area right here him and his friends hanging out boom right in this area and this is a residential area so people in these homes around us would have heard and seen the chaos of what was happening I

Mean after after after the fact but I don’t think people are paying attention cuz kids play out here every day and nothing happens you might have an occasional argument occasional fight but you know people feel safe for leaving their kids in a community that most folks know each other you don’t think

Your child is going to die by gun violence over here no one can prepare themselves for their child that they birth to see an early grave and when we talk about KJ we’re talking 10 years old before the new year even happen but I’ve seen it a 9-year-old I’ve seen a three-year-old

16mon year old I’ve seen the 18yearold I’ve seen the 24y old but the unfortunate part about this it’s a 10-year-old killing another 10-year-old that’s difficult for me to swallow just how angry are you I’m angry but at the same time I don’t have any more anger to give these tragedies don’t make

People have a Moment of clarity he like I think I need to do something different it’s just like until your child lays down until you get affected you’ll start to care and the unfortunate part about it we may not have all the cameras that want to report it cuz often times that doesn’t

Happen a headline for you today and pain anguish loss for the rest of these parents and these fam’s lives you’re talking about the smile weren’t you in particular I just I see I see KJ’s I see how look at how funny he is I was trying

To take my own picture look how he’s looking up at his brother that this is his personality for sure oh my goodness oh and they’re banging M I’m not here to hurt you or anything else okay what what is this This Woman’s grandson was shot and

Killed 3 years ago I live right down the street okay I’ve been to his memorial a couple of times but I want to make sure you got this right okay and I want you to know as a community we’re here for you just days away from burying her son

Britany is finding comfort from those in her community M strong I’m oh man oh man so that was just a stranger turning up yes to your home absolute stranger there’s one thing that she said that struck me mhm which is that the community is behind you everyone’s behind you right

Does that help does that make this any easier it it doesn’t make it any easier but it it just it makes me feel like that it’s just that more possible that that the fight that I want to fight that it’s I’m not alone and that it’s

Possible that I’m being heard cuz I this whole time all I’m feeling like is that nobody cares that’s been like the really hard part for me is I just feel like nobody cares and I’m just trying to get somebody to care that’s what it feels like KJ was just one of nearly 280

Children under the age of 11 to be killed by guns in the last year this tragedy is not unfamiliar it is an indictment of this country’s fractured politics when it comes to gun violence you’re now having to do something that no parent should ever do and that is

You’re getting ready to bury your son right can you describe what that is like or just how that feels at all I have so many people supporting me through this because it is the hardest thing that I could have ever imagined that I would be having to do right now

Um it’s it’s just it’s the hardest thing I can ever imagine that I would have to do it’s it’s it’s not fun there’s nothing fun about it um it makes me very I just I don’t I’m just carrying around this pit this feeling in my stomach I cannot get away

This weight that is just overcomes me anytime I even think about having to make those decisions and and talking about arrangements and it’s a lot it’s it’s the hardest thing I could ever imagine him to do right now what do you want people to take away

From his story what do you want to tell the world what do you want to say about what is happening to you right now and what you’re going through my child was not in the wrong place at the wrong time my baby was we tell these kids to

Get off these games get outside my baby was outside playing on his bike doing what a kid does and this happened to him there has to be something done there has to be something done we have to do something