Watch CBS News

Stockton Family Weeps For Teen Shot To Death In Drive-By Shooting

STOCKTON (CBS13) — A 16-year-old boy was gunned down in a drive-by shooting on Tuesday night, and now his younger cousin is speaking out about what he saw.

A mother wept at the same spot where 16-year-old Enrique Hinojosa was shot to death.

His 12-year-old cousin Anthony didn't say much, but what he does talk about is nothing you would expect a kid his age to talk about.

"It's just messed up to watch your cousin die," he said. "I just seen a lot of holes in his body. He wasn't breathing right and his eyes were rolling in the back of his head."

Anthony didn't want to show his face, but his leg was bandaged up after a bullet went into his foot.

He says he was walking with his cousin after visiting their grandmother when someone pulled up in a car and opened fire.

"My cousin was like help," he said. "I went to go help him."

Enrique's mother Adriana says she knew her son wouldn't make it the moment she got to the hospital.

"He was laying there with tubes all in his nose, all over his body," she said. "He looked pale—he looked the color of a dead person already."

Police aren't ruling out a gang shooting. Detectives say when they interviewed Anthony, he said he was part of the Norteno gang in Stockton. He says police put those words in his mouth.

While those details remain unclear, there is one reality a mother has to deal with—losing her son to gun violence before he even became an adult.

"I see it all the time, I just never thought it would happen to me, to us, to my son," she said.

View CBS News In
CBS News App Open
Chrome Safari Continue
Be the first to know
Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting.