"I find so much comfort and so much joy in hearing other people talk about my son the way that he made them feel," she says. "We wanted him to grow up and treat people with dignity and respect, and that's the way i would want him to have been treated as well."
Shapearl Wells' son Courtney Copeland was fatally shot in 2016. He was 22 years old. Shapearl wanted answers to what had happened to her son in his final moments, but when she wasn't getting them, she decided to take matters into her own hands.
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