Javon Frazier.Photo:Facebook
Javon Frazier, a disabled veteran in Houston, was walking home from the gym just after 11 p.m. June 18 when a man in a black hoodie and shorts began shooting at several men in the area,police say.
Frazier, 23, was shot several times and later pronounced dead at the hospital.
“He was at the wrong place, at the wrong time,” his mother, Claudette Malonetold 13 News Nowfrom her front porch in Newport News, Va., noting that her son had joined a church in Houston and had been focusing on his health, going to the gym several times a week and eating healthily.
Frazier was honorably discharged after three years in the U.S. Army, the channel reported. Pursuing a college degree – he attended Houston Community College – he planned to return home to Virginia this month to complete his degree closer to family.
Claudette Malone’s son, Javon Frazier, died June 18. Ten days later his body remained in Houston, hundreds of miles from his mother and final burial place in Virginia.Facebook
Now, the mother has to pay fees at funeral homes in two states, she said. Her son did not have insurance, she explained on the GoFundMe page, that had raised nearly $9,000 as of Thursday morning.
“You have no idea the pain,” Malone told 13 News Now. “Not only did my son get killed, it’s the whole location and the process and then wanting to know why. I’m trying to hold it together. I have my moments. I think it’s going to hurt more when his body gets here and I physically see him."
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On Wednesday, Malone updated the GoFundMe page to say that her son’s body had been moved from the morgue to the funeral home in Houston.
source: people.com
