Candlelight Vigil held for Adams Ave Shooting Victim

Family and friends of Chavez Hamilton gather together outside a home where he had lived.

“It don’t make no sense for Chavez to die. He was a good guy. He kept you laughing and smiling and always played jokes. He’s just an all around good guy,” said Hamilton’s mother Laurine Fountain.

His mother tells us this is the second child she has had to bury in Montgomery due to violence in the past 26 years.

Hamilton’s death not only leaves behind a grieving mother, but two small children. The youngest is just four months old.

And they are pleading with the public to put down your guns.

“People need to stop. Y’all don’t know each other. Y’all got unnecessary beef. Y’all beefing over women and everything else but the right thing. Y’all need to stop doing what y’all doing, get in church and get saved cause there is too many of y’all out here dying,” said Fountain.
Community activist Jamel Brown told the same thing to the group gathered at the vigil.

“These killings in this city must stop! Montgomery is too small and it’s been too many times that I had to come out no matter if its on the west, south, east or north and had to embrace a mother because it’s hard for a mother to lose a child,” said Brown.

As the police investigation continues…this mother says she will be waiting.

“I’m not leaving and going back home until I get justice for my son cause it was not necessary in no kind of way,” said Fountain.

Hamilton was one of three shot in a drive by shooting Wednesday afternoon on Adams Avenue in downtown Montgomery. He later died of his injuries.

There is a one thousand dollar reward for a tip leading to an arrest. Call Crimestoppers at 215-STOP if you have any information.