{"id":42899,"date":"2024-03-13T22:12:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T02:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=42899"},"modified":"2024-03-13T22:13:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T02:13:01","slug":"i-just-want-my-baby-back-family-of-3-year-old-shot-killed-in-shootout-wants-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/03\/13\/i-just-want-my-baby-back-family-of-3-year-old-shot-killed-in-shootout-wants-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I just want my baby back\u2019: Family of 3-year-old shot killed in shootout wants justice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A family is still shaken up after a gunfight at a Lakeland apartment complex Monday night killed a 3-year-old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lakeland police said three people were shot at the Cambridge Cove Apartments, including the 3-year-old boy. One other person was killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The family is in so much pain and is crying out for justice.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cMy sister literally said: my kids are in the car, my kids are in the car, and my kids are in the car! He literally put the gun in the car, and I know he\u2019d seen those kids in the car, I know he\u2019d seen those babies in there, like why would you do that?\u201d said Yeisdelis Baez, the victim\u2019s aunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to police, Yeimarie Baez, her boyfriend Robert Einzig, and two young children were leaving the apartments after visiting a friend, when a white Dodge Challenger stopped them and started shooting.  <\/p>\n\n\n

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Another unidentified male got out of got out of the driver\u2019s side of the Challenger, with a rifle and approached Einzig on the passenger side of the [Toyota] RAV4,\u201d Police Chief Sam Taylor said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The family nicknamed the beloved toddler J.D. and said his mother did all she could to shield her children from the gunfire. Tragically, Jaquez Norton was killed in the shooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI just want my baby back and I know we\u2019re never going to hear his voice again,\u201d said Pilar Rivera, his grandmother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police said someone inside the family\u2019s car returned fire, hitting and killing one of the suspected shooters, Kemarius Wilson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norton\u2019s family said they will all need to go to therapy to try and cope with his killing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI still can\u2019t believe, and I don\u2019t want to accept reality,\u201d said Jeimylee Baez, his aunt. \u201cI don\u2019t have any words, I don\u2019t know how to feel anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police believe this was a targeted attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t just a random act,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cThey were interested in that vehicle and the people inside that vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The family also said they do not think the shooting was an accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI want everybody to know that this was not an accident, he did it on purpose. He deserves to pay, one of them is already dead, the other one, we are going to do anything to find him,\u201d Rivera said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, the family is burying their only grandson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe fact that we don\u2019t even know if we can open the casket, I keep thinking how they probably destroyed a little body,\u201d Rivera said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police are still looking for the driver of the White Challenger. Norton\u2019s family is begging anyone who knows anything to please help them get justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis was a 3-year-old boy, please, everybody help us find him,\u201d Yeisdelis Baez said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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