


On his 20th Birthday, his mother posted, “Thanking God for 20 years ago. Other photos include Sessoms graduating from high school, baby photos, and one where he is reading to elementary students in his former teacher’s class. ” There are also photos of him being baptized in 2016 in which she writes, “One day at a time sweet Jesus!!! That’s all I’m asking of you!!! Allelujah.”įrom as much as you can glean from a Facebook page, Sessoms looks to have grown up in a very devout Christian family with a brother and a mom and dad who are still married. On his mother’s Facebook page she has a screen shot from four years ago in which Sessoms shared a post that said, “My mom raised me right but I did wrong on my won 100. Sessoms Has a History of Drug Arrests and Convictions but Looks to Have Grown Up in a Devout Christian HomeĪ background search on Sessoms shows that his Facebook profile has been removed, but he went by Darius “Trill” Sessoms. How can you walk up to a little boy, point-blank, and put a gun to his head and just shoot him? How could anyone do that?” She said the young man just walked up to the little boy who was sitting on his bike, which he does every day. They soon heard Cannon’s father crying out that his son had been shot.Īccording to Walburn, “Our neighbor saw it. Rescue workers tried to save him and rushed him to the Wilson Medical Center but the boy died.ĪBC 11 reported a neighbor named Charlene Walburn told them they heard the shot and she told her husband to call 911 as she ran to the door. When police arrived to a call for help they found that 5-year-old Cannon had been shot. The Wilson Times reports that the shooting happened at around 5:30pm on Sunday. He was merely doing what he would do any other day and that’s playing with his sisters, riding his bike, doing what kids do and all of the innocence that comes with being a child.” Īccording to The Wilson Times, the motive or what lead up to the shooting is unclear, but a Go-Fund-Me for the family says, “On Sunday, August 9th, this precious angel was playing outside with his siblings when he was murdered. Sessoms was charged with first-degree murder of a 5-year-old boy in Wilson, N.C.
