COLUMBIA, S.C. — In an emotional press conference Friday morning, the mother of 16-year-old Julian Keel spoke out about her son’s tragic death, vowing to seek justice for the life taken by what she described as “senseless violence.”
“It’s the last thing I do, I’m cleaning up this community,” said Adrian Lake Watson, Keel’s mother. “We are cleaning up these streets. These guns, these bullets are too readily available to children making adult decisions.”
Keel, a rising senior at W.J. Keenan High School, was fatally shot around 12:30 a.m. on June 2 while leaving a graduation party in the Colonial Village parking lot. Investigators say he was an innocent bystander. Two arrests have been made in connection with the shooting, but Watson emphasized that her fight for justice is far from over…