Valerie Bauerlein

It was September 21st, 2023, and he was found on a dirt path near a convenience store.

The spot was so close to his house that Federick's mom, Latoya Williams, could hear the gunfire.

And she said she just knew something.

She just felt it.

She just felt that something was wrong.

My colleague Hannah Critchfield spoke with Williams about that day.

The police were called.

After they arrived, Frederick was loaded into an ambulance.

Williams pleaded with the paramedics to let her ride with her son, but they said she couldn't.

Williams didn't have a car, so she started walking to the hospital.

After Williams arrived, she was told that her son was in surgery.

While she waited, she spoke with Detective Ty Mittling of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.

Williams told the detective that Frederick could be a Hellraiser.

Eventually, a doctor came in and told Williams that her son was dead.

At the same hospital, another man was getting treated for a bullet wound.

Anthony Jean-Pierre is a man in his 30s with a felony record.

Pierre was near the convenience store on the day Frederick was killed.

He had been shot in his left hand.

According to police records, Pierre said at the hospital that he was just an unlucky bystander.

Wrong place, wrong time.