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Powell’s mother is raising a series of concerns in the wake of her son’s death. The family gathered first in the parking lot where “Rico,” as they called him, was killed.
Tape still marks one spot where bullets tore through a store window in what became an exchange of gunfire in the middle of the afternoon.
Arturo Barnes, 28, is now jailed, facing a second-degree murder charge.
Thurston said the loss of her son hurts all the more because at the hospital that day, police refused her request to see Powell, to say goodbye.
“I asked them could I please see my son, and they told me, they said no, he’s going to the medical examiner’s office, and I wanted to hold onto my son before he was taken down to the medical examiners and I was treated so unfairly,” Thurston said.
The family of Tyriek Powell went to the police station in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Tuesday to watch body camera video of efforts to save the 20-year- old’s life after he was shot earlier this month. Seeing police perform CPR brought no peace. “I’m really just like, a burning hole is inside of me without my son,” Tiffany Thurston, Powell’s mother,. Fredericksburg 8 hours ago