Nine months after her son was shot to death in an attempted robbery attempt, Marjorie Cotton-Reeves said she was finally beginning to move on.
“I’m just beginning to get my life back,” Cotton-Reeves told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
On Friday, she cried again. This time because police identified the man accused of killing her son, Henry Omar Reeves, on May 18, 2013.
“This is great. I was hoping that it would not go beyond a year,” Cotton-Reeves said Friday night. “But it doesn’t bring my son back.”
On Thursday, Atlanta police secured an arrest warrant for Isaac Antonio McCollough, charging him with armed robbery and felony murder in the death of Omar Reeves, according to Officer Kim Jones. On Friday, McCollough was taken into custody and booked into the DeKalb County jail, Jones said.
In May, Reeves was returning to his family’s home on Metropolitan Avenue when investigators believe he was approached by a man with a gun. Investigators believe Reeves was a robbery target, his mother said.
After being shot in the chest, Reeves used his own gun to fire at the suspect, Cotton-Reeves said. By the time police and paramedics arrived, Reeves was dead and the suspect gone. Reeves was a few weeks shy of his 28th birthday when he was killed.
“My son had never been in a fight his entire life,” Cotton-Reeves said. “That’s not him.”
Against his mother’s wishes, Reeves carried a gun to protect himself. But beyond that, he was a laid-back, free-spirited young man who planned to pursue a career in either architecture or cooking, his mother said. With long hair and a beard, friends sometimes called Reeves “Jesus.”
“He’s my only child. He was everything to me,” Cotton-Reeves said. “I’m divorced. I’m alone. And I don’t have a child anymore.”
McCollough was being held early Saturday without bond.
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