Charged Ohio teens won’t be released

One more day of TOLEDO — freedom and Wayne Williamson’s 15-year-old son would be traveling to Tennessee to scope out military schools for football.

His hope, Williamson said Friday, was to get his son Hakeim out of the Toledo area and away from a bad environment to a better one where his son would be out of trouble.

But it’s too late for that. His son will miss the trip — instead spending the immediate future in juvenile detention facing felony murder and aggravated robbery charges in the shooting death of DeShawn Gott on Jan. 23.

The Williamson teen was arrested Thursday along with Tavon Tucker, 18 in connection to the killing of Gott, whose death marked Toledo’s sixth homicide this year. He was fatally shot Jan. 23 in the 600 block of Woodland Avenue near City Park Avenue. Police said the shooting may have happened inside a vehicle.

The Williams youth’s mother, Tamar Williamson, spoke through tears Friday at her son’s detention hearing before Magistrate William Hutcheson in Lucas County Juvenile Court. She told him how her son is a good person and she just wants him to come home.

Public Defender Audrey Sweeney added the youth has no prior offenses and this is the first time he’s been brought before the court.

But Magistrate Hutcheson agreed with Lori Olender, deputy chief of the juvenile division of the Lucas County Prosecutor’s Office, who argued the charges are too severe for the teen to be set free.

“It doesn’t get any bigger than murder and aggravated robbery in juvenile court,” Olender said.

After the hearing, the youth wrapped both arms around his parents, his mothers sobs heard throughout the courtroom, before a deputy told him it was time to go.

Both parents declined to comment after the hearing.

Tucker also appeared Friday before Magistrate Hutcheson and was likewise denied release. He hugged his mother — who declined comment — and was escorted away by a deputy.

Olender said after both hearings investigators believe the incident is related to a drug deal involving marijuana and that Tucker, who was 17 at the time, was the shooter.