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dailymail she believes her son’s shooting son was ‘motivated by race’.
‘I really believe it was racially motivated. What else would it have been? It’s really the only explanation. I also believe that if [Charles Heller] was black and my son was white [Heller] would have been arrested that night and probably already convicted,’ the mother told the tabloid.
Hunt, an aspiring musician who went by the name
PrettyBoi Nabii, had been dating Lauryn Heller for a few weeks prior to his death. The night he died, the couple were watching a movie together in her room and drinking wine.
Father, 49, is charged with murder after shooting dead his 20-year-old daughter s boyfriend, 21, when he found him hiding in her bedroom after she sneaked him in: Victim s mother says it was down to race
Charles Frederick Heller, 49, is accused of fatally shooting 21-year-old Dustyn Hunt inside his Everett, Washington home in February 2019
Hunt s mother, Lisa Ledbetter Hunt, told DailyMail.com that she believes the shooting was racially motivated calling the claim the only explanation
The shooting occurred after he found Hunt hiding in his daughter s room
Mr. Heller aimed a handgun at Hunt, ordering him to get dressed and leave
Hunt followed the order and apologized to the father as he yelled profanities