He was gunned down in the morning while waiting at a bus stop in Oakland; that is what a grieving mother says happened to her son.

The shooting happened earlier this year and now she says she is ready to forgive the person who killed her son.

“I got him to Children’s Hospital, and I was bamming on the door, and I said, ‘My baby’s shot. My baby’s shot. Somebody, help me. My baby is shot.'”

The trembling voice of a desperate mother, Carol Jones, described her effort to keep her 27-year-old son Patrick Scott Jr. alive. He was shot to death back on Feb. 3 just before 11 a.m. while waiting at a bus stop on 62nd and Market Street in West Oakland.

Children’s Hospital was the closest medical facility to this location.

“They put that gurney back in that ambulance, and I knew he was gone,” Jones said.

Scott Jr.’s murder case is being investigated by the Oakland Police Department and the FBI’s joint homicide task force.

“There was no reason for this killing,” FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Bertram Fairries said. “This was an innocent victim, waiting at a bus stop going to his grandmother’s home and because of being at that place at that particular time, his life was taken away.”

Police say there is at least one suspect, possibly others involved. But they don’t have the specifics.

Jones says she saw her son walking from their home on California Street toward the bus stop on Market moments before the shooting occurred.

“He was a gentle giant, never got questioned by the police, never had no altercations,” Jones said. “He kept to himself.”

Her message to the person who killed her son is, “If you are going through the process of a guilty conscience, it is best that you just turn yourself in because I don’t hate you ’cause I have no hard feelings against you. I forgive you.”

The FBI and the Oakland Police Department are offering a reward of $30,000 for information leading to an arrest in this case.

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