Mothers who lost children to gun violence share their stories
On April 28, 2021, 16-year-old Marcqueon Goodman was shot and killed on Rose Ridge Place in southwest Charlotte.
Marcqueon was Latoya Goodman’s first born son. She told Channel 9’s Allison Latos that he had just made the basketball team at Harding University High School when he was killed.
In February 2022, 15-year-old Martin Tashpulatova was murdered outside a northeast Charlotte apartment complex on Mallard Park Drive.
Police arrested another 15-year-old for Martin’s murder.