Funeral Held For Teenage Boy Killed In Baltimore
BALTIMORE (WJZ)-- Five days after a pair of best friends are gunned down, police are not any closer to finding their killer.
Weijia Jiang tells us relatives are hungry for answers as one of the teens is laid to rest.
Anthony Tarbert was too young to die and to leave his family.
"Grieving, trying for some answers, just trying to get through today," said Edward Boyd, Tarbert's uncle.
On Friday, loved ones flooded a Catonsville funeral home to say goodbye to the 15 year old. Tarbert and his best friend Dominic Perry-- also 15-- were shot and killed last Sunday.
"It was like a cannon going off," said Richard Tarbet, Anthony Tarbert's father. "Boom boom boom, 10 of them. I counted them."
Tarbert's father found his son's body five houses down from home. Two weeks before, a Baltimore police officer was shot by a sniper's rifle in the same block of Cooks Lane.
It was Tarbert who stayed by his side until help arrived.
"Because he was on the ground giving out," Anthony Tarbert told WJZ after the shooting. "There wasn't no one talking to him. He was by himself."
"He didn't do anything to deserve this," said Leah Erwin, Anthony Tarbert's friend. "He didn't deserve this."
Family members say their pain is quickly turning into anger, knowing police have yet to find the person responsible.
"We want closure," Richard Tarbert said. "We want to know why he was picked."
"I'm mad," said Dwayne Fletcher, victim's friend. "I want to find who did it and I want them to get time for it."
"And I don't think there should be any pleas in it," said Timmy Diehl, the victim's godfather. "Not for taking two 15-year-olds lives who didn't get to live."
Police are developing leads, but have not named any suspects. To that end, police are urging anyone with information about this double homicide to report it.
Tarbert would have celebrated his 16th birthday in two weeks.
