🪪 Jul 4, 2023: Dallas News > ‘He did not deserve to die’. - #Texas

 By Sarah Bahari, 

Jamie Landers and Noor Adatia

8:26 AM on Jul 4, 2023 CDT 

Updated at 5:04 PM on Jul 4, 2023 CDT

www.dallasnews.com

Ka’Desha Weatherly, Willis’ mother, told The Dallas Morning News she heard what sounded like 100 gunshots and began running down the street to find her son and nephews. Unknowingly, Weatherly ran past her son’s body. When she found her three nephews without her son, she knew.

Willis recently graduated from Arlington Heights High School and accepted an apprenticeship to become an electrician, Weatherly said. In the meantime, he worked nearly every day at McDonald’s, occasionally giving neighborhood kids free food.

Monday was a rare day off, so Willis spent it with friends and family at ComoFest. Now, he was gone.

Next to splatters of her son’s dried blood, Weatherly planted a box of pink roses. In black marker, she wrote “His name was Paul Timothy Willis.”

“He was a beautiful young man,” said Weatherly, 39. “He did everything right. He did not deserve to die.”

A cousin of Cynthia Santos, 28-year-old Tania Torres, told The News Santos worked at Pak-A-Pocket, a Gyro restaurant in Fort Worth.

“She was a hard worker,” Torres said, adding Santos was also family-oriented. “She was always supporting me and my crazy ideas. I loved her like a sister.”

A GoFundMe was created Tuesday to help cover Santos’ funeral expenses.

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