BUDDA, Texas — The Hays County Sheriff’s Office said it has determined the identities of everyone involved in the Aug. 5 shooting that killed a teenager in Buda.
That teenager was 17-year-old Erick Marin.
On Friday, his mother told CBS Austin that she wanted justice for her son.
“I just told him to get up! I yelled at him, ‘Get up, Erick!’ but he was gone. He didn’t get up,” said Erick’s mother, Anna Mendivil.
In a room full of family and friends from around the world, wearing his favorite color green, one person is missing: 17-year-old Erick Marin. A memorial in his honor at his aunt’s house made his absence deafeningly clear and painfully final.
Erick was the sunshine of his mother’s life and the two were very close as teenagers.
“When I was cooking, he would come up to me and give me kisses,” Mendivil said. “He would come into my room, kick open my door, and I would jump up and say, ‘What happened?!’ And he would say, ‘I love you!’ He was never mad at me; he was more concerned with making me proud.”
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Unfortunately, on Monday evening, August 5, this light went out.
The HCSO said it responded to a firearm alarm in the Shadow Creek neighborhood of Buda and found Erick dead from an apparent gunshot wound.
His brother and sister were there when life left him.
“He said, ‘You don’t want to see him like that, Mom,’ and I said, ‘Yes, I do! That’s my baby!'” Mendivil said. “I could only see his Jordans; his feet were pointing up. I couldn’t see his body because the grass was too high.”
Erick, the son of a beautician, always had a fresh hairstyle that only his mother could cut. After his death, his mother was allowed to give him a final haircut at the funeral home where he now lies.
“It was heartbreaking because I can never do it again,” she said. “I said, ‘Erick, hold me up. Don’t let me collapse here!’ And I could hear him saying, ‘I’m holding you, Mom. I’m holding you.’ I could cut his hair because I felt him there with me.”
Mendivil says she was sent a video of the shooting and other related videos.
“It’s hard to watch that when you know it’s your child, and it’s hard to keep getting videos of them making fun of my son’s death and laughing about it,” she said.
Although the HCSO says it has identified everyone involved, no charges have been filed yet.
Erick’s mother now just wants justice for her little boy.
“I don’t want them to die. I want them to go to prison and feel it there,” Mendivil said. “They’ll have a lot of time to think.”
A wake and memorial service for Erick will be held Saturday at the Weed-Corley-Fish South Chapel in Austin.
A GoFundMe page has also been created for Erick.
