A Rani father was shot dead days before his 40th birthday after he ran to help a friend who was attacked by the gunman, his heartbroken mother said.
Police and family said 39-year-old Rahsaun Williams spoke with a gun to his mouth about 7:30 p.m. Friday after Williams’ on-again, off-again girlfriend called him to tell him that another man had shot her in the buttocks. Has slapped.
According to police, the altercation turned physical and the other man pulled out a gun and shot Williams in the stomach and left shoulder.
“The world has gone absolutely crazy these days,” his mother, Beverly Williams, told The Post while planning her son’s funeral on Tuesday. “I don’t know what’s going on with guns. “Everybody got a gun.”
The man who shot Williams – whose birthday would have been Wednesday – remains at large as his grieving family tries to come to terms with this senseless violence.
Beverly Williams said her son is “her king”.
“His older brother always said he was my favorite,” said the 62-year-old retired home health aide.
“No, it wasn’t that he was my favorite. He was just the one that stuck with me. He went where I went. If someone breathes that hard on me, he doesn’t like it – don’t mess with his mother.
“He was always my protector, my protector,” she continued, tears flowing from her eyes. “It’s sad, it’s really sad. “I would have never dreamed of such a thing, not in a million years.”
The heartbroken matriarch said the death has left her “walking a nightmare”.
“This boy was my heart,” she said. “They tore out my heart.”
Friends, family and neighbors created a memorial outside her home with candles, empty Hennessy bottles, a teddy bear and a message board filled with heartbreaking memories about Williams, who was nicknamed “Badness”.
“Rest in peace, Raja,” one message said of the slain man, who was survived by two daughters and a son.
His 16-year-old daughter, Cashnare Williams, pledged to “protect our legacy and family.”
“Mom make sure your name, BAD, lives on, I love you forever and your baby will miss you,” Cashnere wrote.
Beverly Williams said her son recently moved into a new apartment in Jamaica, Queens, and the family planned to go to Barclays Center on Friday for Nick Cannon’s “Wild ‘N Out Live” to celebrate his upcoming birthday. Had made.
But that celebration never came.
“My baby is gone,” she cried. “He’s gone.”
Cashnare Williams’ mother, Latasha Nicholson, said Williams was a creative soul who loved Red Lobster, enjoyed theme parks and vacations.
“He is very creative,” she said. “He makes Halloween costumes, and he goes trick-or-treating with kids. I don’t know how it will work this year.
“He celebrates the holidays, ugly Christmas sweaters – that’s his thing.”
Beverly Williams said she nicknamed her son “Badness” because she fell in the tub when she was nine months pregnant and broke her ankle.
“I said, ‘Oh, this guy’s going to cause trouble,'” she said. “But he was never upset. That’s just Rashaun badness.
Williams, who has the first three letters of his mother’s name tattooed on his neck, also liked rap music and was in the music video for Jay-Z’s 1999 song, “Do It Again”, when he was just a young teen. Were, his family said.
His mother said she was not surprised he died trying to help someone else – it was just his character.
He and the woman whose honor he ran to defend were apparently rekindling their relationship.
“She said some guy slapped her on the back,” Beverly said. “He came, I think he said something to the man, now my child is dead.
“The person who did this is hiding somewhere and is on the run, but you can’t run forever,” he said.
He further said, “There is no statute of limitations for murder.” “I hope they rot in jail, I really do. I hope that not every day of their lives goes as they plan.
“I hope they sit in a closet and just think about it.”
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