"This sh-- is a crisis" : Mom moves son out of Baltimore due to youth violence

It started with reaching out to another kid’s mother after an altercation between two kids. Now, one child is dead, and a mother says she tried to warn people there were problems brewing.


Patricia Hawkins, or Patty as she introduces herself, is the mom of 16-year-old Khalil and two other children. Hawkins said her son was jumped and robbed, and then found himself in a fight after school one day.


Early on in the fighting, Hawkins said she reached out to Jaylen Richards’ mom, telling her Richards “threatened my son with a gun.”


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