High School Student Killed in Drive-By

A drive-by shooting in the District over the weekend has claimed the life of a 16-year-old high school student.

D.C. Police say at least two gunman opened fire on Antonio Ward and two of his friends as they stood outside of a house in the 5000 block of Just Street Northeast. One of the gunmen was firing from the sunroof.

Ward had gone into the neighborhood to buy a pet snake but his family thinks he was targeted, singled out by someone seeking revenge for an earlier fight.

Holding photos of not one but two murdered sons, Pamela Stove said she’d had enough. God could take her right then and there.

"I don't want to live no more...I'm tired...I'm really tired,” said Pamela Stove, Ward’s mother, as she stood outside her apartment Monday morning "When am I gonna be able to sit down and enjoy some peace on this earth with all this confusion going on...all the time...everybody wants to hurt everybody."

In 1995 Stove lost her first son Clarence to murder. In 1999 she says her husband was beaten to death in a robbery and now this.

"I have had to stay on my knees asking God to give me strength every single day to make it," said Stove.

Pamela Stove says Antonio was an honor student at Accotink Academy in Springfield. She and her family think the teen was singled out for a fight he had gotten into last month in Prince George’s County.

The gunmen firing from the Jeep Saturday night also struck and wounded two of Ward’s friends. The bullets that missed their targets instead hit the home of Bennie Bellinger. She had just gone upstairs when one round came through the living room window.

"I know God got me...see I know God's got his hands on me you know. See I pray."

Other rounds struck her car, knocking out the driver's side window. A teddy bear memorial now marks the spot where Antonio fell. Loving words left fort a teen known to friends as T-Roc.

"Love one another,” Pamela Stove said through tears Monday, "That's what God asks us to do...because when you are cut or shot we all bleed the same color so we all his children...why can't we love one another?"

As if her son’s death isn’t enough, Pamela Stove says someone left a voice mail laughing about Antonio’s murder and saying she would be next. Police are aware of the threats. The District’s homicide rate is still very low.

No one had been murdered in the city this month until Ward was killed Saturday night.