ATLANTA — Call her fearless, relentless or just a mother who would not give up, but after six long years of trying to find the person who killed her 18-year-old son, Yana Harmon is celebrating an arrest in the case.
Harmon spent the last six years knocking on doors and hunting down tips and potential witnesses to get justice.
Channel 2′s Tom Jones has been covering the case since December 2018 when Jaylen Harmon was shot and killed. Jones met Harmon at the old Greenbriar Apartments on Stone Road on Thursday where neighbors found his body.
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“Six long years,” she said. “Every time I come here, I could just feel his spirit.”
She says she hasn’t been able to breathe fully for the last six years, until now.
“I can breathe. I’ve been waiting for this moment. I’ve been waiting. And so many people give up,” she said.
Harmon never gave up. She has called Jones over the years with information from the streets. And tips she’s received She did her own detective work, knocking on doors.
“Not only knocking on doors, but asking and manifesting so that person just tells it. Whoever you are, tell it,” she said.
Someone told it. An anonymous person called her and identified the person who shot Jaylen.
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“They wanted this monster off the street,” she pointed out.
She gave that information to police, but police were getting anonymous tips of their own. Police have now arrested and charged Jorey Roberts.
Harmon won’t forget seeing him in court.
“He couldn’t even look at me,” she recalled.
Harmon was taken aback when Roberts asked for bond so he can take care of his two children.
“My kid is gone. I want to take care of my kid too. I can’t wake him up,” she said.
Roberts is being held without bond on murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during a felony.
Harmon says she prays he stays behind bars for a long time.
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