Those were the words of Raquel Barrett, the mother of 28-year-old Maurice Gordon, the unarmed Jamaican man who was gunned down by a New Jersey state trooper following a traffic stop along the Garden State Parkway near Bass River, in Burlington, on the morning of May 23.
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Speaking with The Gleaner, Barrett said that she wants the state trooper fired and charged with murder.
Barrett said she learnt about her son’s killing about two weeks ago but because of COVID-19 restrictions, she was only able to fly to New York last Thursday.
The attorney representing the family, William O. Wagstaff, is calling for an independent investigation into Gordon’s death.
Wagstaff told The Gleaner that an independent autopsy will be performed on Gordon’s body, adding that funeral arrangements have begun.
