MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis father does not know how or why his son was shot.
“All I know is that my son was murdered,” Aquil El-Amin said.
El-Amin told WREG his son, Muhammad El-Amin, died almost instantly in his car when he was gunned down at the Hamlett Apartments in Fox Meadows on Sunday.
“He called me every day. He’d end every conversation with I love you,” El-Amin explained. “When I met him we’d always embrace and hug. He’d tell me I love you.”
Muhammad was a father of three children.
His youngest son is 6 months old.
El-Amin said Muhammad stopped by the family home with Cameron Stokes for a gathering on Super Bowl Sunday.
“I thought he was a very respectable young man,” El-Amin described Cameron Stokes.
Stokes is the brother of Cateria Stokes, who was murdered while sleeping during a drive-by shooting last year.
El-Amin said, “He told me, ‘Daddy, I’m fixing to take Cam to a friend and I’ll be right back.’ I said, ‘OK, son. I’ll see you when you get back.'”
Cameron and Muhammad never returned.
“I didn’t know he was on his way to die. That’s exactly what happened. He left there and he died,” El-Amin described.
The grieving father stood at a homicide victims memorial his organization established in the 1990s.
El-Amin is now a part of the number of families coping with killings in Memphis.
He wants his son’s death to mean something.
“Make an impact, make a change, do something great,” El-Amin said.
Police are reviewing sky cop cameras from the complex, but no arrests have been made.