A 16-year-old Alabama boy died Tuesday night shortly after he left his parents’ home to get a Coke for dinner.
Jaylin Jenkins asked his parents to go to the store to get a drink for tacos his mother was preparing but never returned.
“While at the store, a verbal altercation ensued. The victim did get back inside his vehicle and attempted to leave the location,” Sgt. LaQuitta Wade said.
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Jaylin’s parents got to him before police arrived and declared him dead in Jackson Street at 8:40 p.m.
“He (Jaylin’s father) held the wound on his neck. He called me and said, ‘Get here now, please,” mother Amanda Jenkins said.
“I got to him before the police or the ambulance or anyone got to him. And he was gone.”
