"I don't want no mother to go through what I'm going through right now," said Stacey Rhodes, Tyler's mother.
It has been almost ten months since Stacey Rhodes has been able to tell her son Tyler she loves him.
Nineteen-year-old Dhoruba Shauib was found guilty Friday of 1st degree manslaughter for blocking Tyler while another teen stabbed him.
"I finally got justice for my son, but there's another family also hurting," Stacey.
"They're in shock," said Cheryl Coleman, Shauib's defense attorney.
She says her client was a good kid who hadn't been in trouble before. His parents are devastated.
Coleman says what likely broke apart her defense was cell phone video that was blown up to show what happened that day.
"I'll admit whether it was the distortion of the zoom technology, or whether it was... it looks very bad," she said.
Coleman says Tyler had a knife too but his mother says you can hear her son saying on the recording that he doesn't want to fight.
Stacey hopes now the community sees the violence needs to end.
"It needs to stop because I'm never going to see my son again. He's never going to be able to call me on the phone, I don't get birthdays, I don't get holidays, nothing. I just have his memories at home," she said.
Shauib will face sentencing soon. Sixteen-year-old Jah-Lah Tyree Vanderhorst will be on trial for allegedly stabbing Tyler.
