Someone murdered a father more than two years after he was shot multiple times during a robbery.
Now, the victim’s mother says someone threatened his life in connection with the robbery in which he was shot.
Aaron Jerrod Dumas' mother isn't sure if there a connection between the two.
One can only imagine, however, getting shot five times and surviving, only to pull up to a barbershop years later, and have someone open fire, ending your life.
“I’m just lost for words,” Cynthia Dumas said.
She told Channel 2’s Tom Jones she cannot find the words to explain the hurt she is feeling.
“I think I’m still numb,” she said.
This after a gunman murdered her 32-year-old son Wednesday evening outside a barbershop on Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard in southwest Atlanta.
What hurts even more is that this isn’t the first time Aaron Dumas has been shot.
Channel 2 Action News interviewed Aaron Dumas in the same spot in his mother’s home June 2017.
That's where he explained how a gunman shot him several times during a robbery on Huff Road.
“It grazed right here and went into my neck, but he was aiming for my head,” Aaron Dumas said at the time of that interview.
Police arrested Demario Thornton in that shooting.
Aaron Dumas’ mother says her son began getting threats right before Thornton went to trial.
“He was threatened (that) he better not testify and all this kind of stuff,” Cynthia Dumas said.
Thornton pleaded guilty and is serving 25 years.
Aaron Dumas’ mother doesn’t know if there’s a connection between the two shootings, but she thinks her son was murdered during the theft of his car, since the shooter said, “Give it up.”
“For him to be shot that many times, I don’t know,” Cynthia Dumas said.
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Cynthia Dumas wants her son’s killer off the streets.
“They shouldn’t be on the street because next, they may do it to somebody that you know or that you're close to,” she said.
Jones reached out to police to see if they are looking into any possible connections between the two shootings. He was still waiting to hear back at the time of this report.
Aaron Dumas’ mother says at least the husband and father of two doesn’t have to look over his shoulder anymore and will help someone else live by being an organ donor.
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