Dovon Harris, one month gone by

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Last month, HR reported on Dovon Harris, 15, killed on 114th Street just east of Central Avenue in LAPD’s Southeast Division in Watts. Dovon was shot and killed June 15 but was kept on life support for two days so his parents could donate six of his organs. A boy about his own age was later arrested in the case.

Barbara Pritchett, his mother, described her life one month after her son’s slaying. Despite financial difficulty, she has had to quit her job as a home healthcare worker, she said. Her employers offered no bereavement leave, and, ‘I would just cry all day,’ she said.

‘It’s not day to day, it’s moment to moment,’ she said. ‘You just don’t know how you are going to feel from one moment to the next. I wouldn’t wish this on my worst-est enemy. You wake up with this pain. You go to bed with this pain.’

A service in memory of Dovon is scheduled for 11 a.m. July 22 at Glory Bound Missionary Baptist Church at 1522 S. Long Beach Blvd. in Compton. The public is welcome.

see ‘Dovon Harris,’ ‘Ive Got Expectations for You,’ and ‘Watts United.’