we appreciate you joining us tonight. thanks, don. i want to bring in trey bosley who lost his brother to gun violence. he got to ask the president a question tonight at the town hall. trey, when i see you i think about my own youth. i wasn t that different from you. probably not as articulate and maybe more of a goof off. but the main difference was i lived in a more forgiving environment. if i screwed up, i wasn t at risk of getting shot. so joining me now is trey bosley and his mother pamela bosley. it s good to talk to you. i haven t seen you in quite some time. it s been years ago that we have been covering this issue and trying to deal with it, right. how are you doing? that s correct. we re doing okay. yeah. trey, you asked the final question to president obama. what did you think of his
tre, when i see you i think about my own youth. i wasn t that different from you. probably not as articulate and maybe more of a goof-off. but the main difference was i lived in a more forgiving environment. if i screwed up, i wasn t at risk of getting shot. so joining me now is tre bosley and his mother pamela bosley. it s good to talk to you. i haven t seen you in quite some time. it s been years ago that we have been covering this issue and trying to deal with it, right. how are you doing? that s correct. we re doing okay. yeah. tre, you asked the final question to president obama. what did you think of his response? i was very excited by his response. i was really happy to hear what he had to say. and i really liked how he gave me a genuine answer to what i
pamela bosley and her attorney. can you tell me a little bit about your son terrell and how he was lost. my son terrell bosley was a gospel bass player, a college student. he was working a job, doing all the right things, me and my husband, we did all we could to protect him from gun violence. april 4th, 2006, he was church, came out to help his friend get drums and somebody came by shooting and shot my son and took his life. since then the music stop, his life wassence ended and mine was, too. when terrell walked into the room he ll light up a room. he had friends, family, he loved his family, you know, his siblings, his mom, of course, me and he was a good child, doing everything right and positive.
crimes and unlawful purposes in chicago and primarily african neighborhoods so they have to do something more. miss bosley obviously your son is gone but what would justice look like for you now? we have to stop the flow of guns coming into our city, killing our black kids. just this year we had 1700 people shot and 290 homicides, murders. we have to do something about the gun flows that s taking over our neighborhoods we hear gunshots all the time. that s why we are going after the villages on the outside of chicago allowing the guns to take over our streets. thank you to pamela bosley, the work you are doing is a great way of continuing to parent your beloved son, despite the fact that he is gone and thank you to michael persoon in chicago. up next the stars of
that i do not miss and think about my son, terrell. even though it has been six years, the terrible pain remains the same. no mother should ever have to bury their son. i am demanding congress to get the guns out of the hands of the people who should not have them and bring justice to my son, terrell. sherialyn birdsong. this is my husband, rickey birdsong who for 19 years was a division one basketball coach. his last place of coaching was at northwestern university. we met when we were 16 years old and for 27 years we experienced the american dream. then on july 2nd, 1999, our american dream became the american nightmare. rickey was gunned down in cold blood while he was jogging with our two youngest children ages 8 and 10 in our quiet neighborhood in illinois outside of chicago. i lost my husband and best friend, my three children lost a great father. rickey had been head basketball coach at northwestern and he had written a book about coaching your kids to be winners in