Father says his 15-year-old son was shot and killed over a pair of jeans: North Carolina
A North Carolina father is grieving the loss of his only child after his 15-year-old son was allegedly shot and killed over a pair of jeans by a teenager who pretended to be his friend.
CJ Alston says his 15-year-old son, Cayden, was trying to sell some jeans when two boys came to the family’s home in Raleigh on Friday morning. He says he had told Cayden the night before not to have anyone over, as he was on punishment.
“I literally told Cayden that night before, I’m like, ‘They can’t come back over here. You can’t have no company,’” Alston said.
The father says Cayden and the boys got into a dispute over the jeans, with the boys refusing to pay for them and Cayden refusing to hand them over without payment. He says that’s when one of the boys shot his son.
“Cayden was in here running around, trying to clean up his own blood – from the bathroom, the closet door, the kitchen, everywhere. He even had a roll of tissue that has his bloody handprint on it,” he said.
Alston says everything happened within a span of 15 minutes. The boys arrived at the family’s home at 11:36 a.m., and police were on scene by 11:51 a.m., according to timestamps on footage from the Ring doorbell camera.
The father says when he reviewed the Ring footage, he noticed the boys acting suspiciously outside the home before the shooting and believes they arrived with ill intentions.
The triple shooting occurred near Franklin and Chicago avenues around midnight.
“I could tell by the way they were acting. They were a little bit adamant about getting in [the house]. They was going around to the back of the house, asking which one was his window,” he said.
Alston is now left with only photographs and memories of his son.
“Everything,” he said of what he will miss about Cayden. “What I’ll miss most is his face and talking to him. Cayden was my only kid.”
