A Queens dad gunned down days earlier than his fortieth birthday had rushed to assist for a pal who had simply been groped by the gunman, his devastated mom mentioned.
Rahsaun Williams, 39, mouthed off to the gun-packing creep at about 7:30 p.m. Friday after Williams’ on-again, off-again girlfriend referred to as him to say one other man had slapped her buttocks, police and the household mentioned.
The dispute turned bodily and the opposite man pulled out a gun and shot Williams within the abdomen and left shoulder, in accordance with cops.
“The world is now simply loopy these days,” his mom Beverly Williams advised The Publish Tuesday as she deliberate her son’s funeral. “I don’t know what’s occurring with the weapons. Everyone obtained a gun.”
The person who shot Williams — whose birthday would have been Wednesday – was nonetheless on the unfastened as his grieving household tried to make sense of the mindless violence.
Beverly Williams referred to as mentioned her son was “her king.”
“His older brother at all times mentioned he was my favourite,” the 62-year-old retired house well being aide mentioned.
“No, it wasn’t that he was my favourite. He was simply the one which caught to me. He went the place I went. If anybody a lot as breathe laborious on me, he wasn’t having it — don’t mess together with his mom.
“He was at all times protecting of me, my protector,” she continued, tears streaming from her eyes. “It’s tragic, it’s actually tragic. I might have by no means dreamed nothing like this, not in one million years.”
The demise has left her “strolling in a nightmare,” the shattered matriarch mentioned.
“This boy was my coronary heart,” she mentioned. “They simply ripped my coronary heart out.”
Associates, household and neighbors made an impromptu memorial exterior her house with candles, empty Hennessy bottles, a teddy bear and a message board stuffed with heartbreaking missives labout Williams who was nicknamed “Badness.”
“Relaxation in Peace, King,” one message mentioned of the slain man, who had two daughters and a son.
His 16-year-old daughter, Cashnere Williams, pledged to “shield our legacy and household.”
“mma ensure that your identify, B.A.D. stays alive, I really like you endlessly and your child gonna miss you,” Cashnere wrote.
Beverly Williams mentioned her son had simply moved to a brand new condo in Jamaica, Queens, and the household had deliberate to go to the Barclays Heart on Friday for Nick Cannon’s “Wild ‘N Out Stay” to rejoice his upcoming birthday.
However that celebration by no means got here.
“My child is gone,” she wept. “He’s gone.”
Latasha Nicolson, mom of Cashnere Williams, added that Williams was a inventive soul who liked Purple Lobster, loved theme parks and reveled within the holidays.
“He’s very inventive,” she mentioned. “He makes the Halloween costumes, and he goes trick-or-treating with the youngsters. I don’t understand how that’s going to work this 12 months.
“He does the vacations, the ugly Christmas sweater — that’s his factor.”
Beverly Williams mentioned she’d nicknamed her son “Badness” as a result of she fell within the tub and broke her ankle when she was 9 months pregnant with him.
“I mentioned, ‘Oh this boy goes to be bother,” she mentioned. “However he was by no means bother. He’s simply Rashaun Badness.”
Williams, who had the primary three letters of his mother’s identify tattooed on his neck, additionally liked rap music and was within the music video for Jay-Z’s 1999 music, “Do It Once more,” when he was only a younger teen, his household mentioned.
His mom mentioned she isn’t stunned he died attempting to assist another person — that was simply his character.
He and the lady whose honor he rushed to defend had apparently simply been rekindling their relationship.
“She mentioned some man slapped her on the rear finish,” Beverly mentioned. “He got here, I suppose he mentioned one thing to the man, now my youngster is useless.
“The one that did that is someplace hiding and operating, however you possibly can’t run endlessly,” she mentioned.
“There isn’t a statute of limitation for homicide,” she continued. “I hope they rot in jail, I actually do. I hope they’ve day by day of their life, not operating like they plan on doing.
“I hope they sit in a cell and simply give it some thought.”