Darrion Williams' sixteenth birthday party, scheduled for this weekend, will no longer happen.
Darrion Williams was killed in a Chicago shooting on Randolph Street near the United Center days before his sixteenth birthday party.His stepmother said he was so excited to celebrate this weekend. A birthday party was planned for this Saturday that sadly, will no longer happen.
"They took a special kid away. They did," said Audrey Welch-Williams, the victim's stepmother. "It tore me up, because I had just spoken with him, and he said, 'I love you too.' And I'm like, that was the last thing that I got from him." "He had a lot of people and mentors that were in his life. So, it wasn't like he strayed away. He was just at the wrong place at the wrong time," Welch-Williams said.
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