Alabama boy, 15, walking to high school football game with best friends gunned down by 16-year-old

The mother of a 15-year-old boy shot and killed by a stray bullet as he walked to his high school football game in Alabama is now pleading with the public to 'put the guns down and talk' as her son's alleged killer, a teenager himself, is arrested.

Glenda Wesley, the heartbroken mom of 15-year-old Phillip Fletcher, who was shot and killed in Huntsville, is appealing to the public to reduce gun violence and hoping officials find a way to get illegal pistols out of teens' hands.

Wesley "I never thought it would be me. But I don’t know what I could say," she said. "Put the guns down and just talk with each other."

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"It shouldn’t get to the point where you have to bury a child. You shouldn’t have to bury anybody due to guns. It should be something against that where a 16-year-old should have a gun. They’re just too easy for them to get," added the mother.

Arrest records show that Torres McCray, a 16-year-old, was been charged with capital murder in Fletcher’s death. McCray is being held in the Madison County Jail without bond.

She says she hopes that there's some kind of gun control enacted. Currently, Alabama has a permitless carry law on the books, which allows anyone 19 years or older to carry a handgun without a permit, background check, or safety training. Police are investigating how the 16-year-old came to possess the firearm.

She relived the horrific moment no parent should have to live through - the moment she got the phone call from her son's friends telling her to go to the hospital. She told WAFF48 that she was 'expecting to hear her son' on the line, but instead, his friends frantically told her she needs to get to the hospital.

She also said she was kept in the dark for about three hours about his condition, as she was told that she must speak to authorities before she could see him, but his name wasn't on the ‘DOA’ list so she held out hope he was still alive. Police told her she has to wait for investigators to finish and speak to them first.

Sadly, "They took me to a room and they told me he wasn’t here anymore," she said, with tears in her eyes. Her son was 'in the wrong place at the wrong time,' she added.