Barry Dockery Jr's family and friends did a balloon release Saturday, what would've been his 31st birthday. Dockery was shot and killed in North Austin two weeks ago.
Police say on March 18, they got a call that someone had been shot multiple times and was lying outside a home on the 300 block of Deen Avenue. . She is being charged with first degree murder.
Dockery's family and friends did a balloon release on April 1, what would've been his 31st birthday. "Today's his birthday, then I'm going to have to bury him next week, so I'm really going through it," his mother Renesia Francis said.Francis says this was her first reaction. "It's hard. It's hard when I heard the news. It's hard as the days go by that he's not here," she said.Dockery leaves behind a loving family and two children. "They had a daddy, that was their daddy, and he loved his kids.
"I sure miss cooking up them eggs for you boy, I always had your order ready, because I know you wanted five eggs, and bacon, and toast, and I miss you coming to the house," his grandmother Shirley Hunter said."He took care of everybody," Francis said. "He was a good person, loved his kids, loved his family," his uncle Brian Howard said. "The whole family got love for him.""I hope God puts in your heart, if you watch this, to see my pain. My pain is hurtful, I can't sleep at night, nor can I eat, I mean, it hurts. I don't want to hurt your family, I don't want nobody else hurt, but it hurts, nobody should go through this," she said. "I deserve peace of mind as I'm trying to lay my son down.
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