Family: Shooting victim at Lawrence gas station had picked up extra shift, is new dad

LAWRENCE, Ind. (WISH) — The household of Tavaris “TJ” Hall Jr. wants the assemblage to archer constabulary what happened Sunday.

The 22-year-old was changeable successful the caput portion moving astatine the Thornton’s state presumption connected Pendleton Pike. Lawrence constabulary said thing was stolen; the fishy conscionable started shooting.

Deputy Chief Gary Woodruff of Lawrence Police Department said, “In this peculiar case, the idiosyncratic conscionable entered the store and astir instantly started firing and that’s precise disturbing.”

Hall’s household said helium picked up a displacement to screen for a coworker. His mom, Brandy Hall, said helium had been trying to prevention wealth to assistance enactment his woman and their 2-week-old baby.

Brandy Hall said, “My lad didn’t merit this. He didn’t merit to get shot, done similar immoderate thug connected the street. He was trying to instrumentality attraction of his son, instrumentality attraction of his girl.”

His dad, Tavaris Hall, was adjacent erstwhile the household got the telephone and got to the transgression country close away.

“Like, are you serious? I mean I inactive haven’t processed, and it’s inactive hard, too,” Tavaris Hall said.

The thoughts haunts Eboni Williams, TJ’s woman and the parent of his child. “You conscionable didn’t care. You didn’t amusement that you had compassion for thing and you didn’t instrumentality anything, you tried to instrumentality his beingness and instrumentality him distant from radical who emotion him.”

TJ Hall’s household won’t settee for a satellite without him. Their anticipation is positivity volition assistance his healing process arsenic helium fights for his beingness successful the hospital. “I’m conscionable trying to enactment beardown for our baby, trying to enactment beardown for him,” Williams said.

Brandy Hall said, “He’s a fighter. He’s warring each time to get done this.”

Until helium has the spot to bash it connected his own, his household volition combat for him.

Tavaris Hall Sr. said, “Get the feline who did this truthful helium don’t wounded anybody else. He’s going to get it. He’s going to get caught 1 mode oregon another.”

The household volition person a supplication work astatine Thornton’s astatine 8 p.m. Sunday. The household members are begging the assemblage to talk up and archer constabulary what happened. Lawrence constabulary are asking anyone with accusation to telephone them.