The morning of June 16, Ja'lon was walking to the store in the 3300 block of West 16th Street with one of his older siblings to pick up some milk. Authorities said a car headed east hit him as he crossed the street, just steps from his family's home. The car dragged him for half a block, and witnesses said the driver stopped briefly before taking off."He came and told us they had the car, they had fingerprints, they had warrants out, they got video," Harrison said.
"You knew you hit him and you kept going and just left him laying there like a stray dog on the street. I just want to know why. Why?" she asked, pleading for the person responsible to come forward."Don't have this family keep going through what we’re going through every day.""They have our numbers. Why's no one reached out to us? This is a kid that has been killed. On the streets. Violently, the way he was killed. And no one’s reaching out to us," she said.