A social media post about a Clayton County Police officer who went above and beyond to comfort a mother who recently lost her daughter to violence has gone viral.
Officer Theo Williams was among the first to respond to a shooting at the Hampton home on Sept. 24.
Karl Jordan, the 26-year-old estranged boyfriend of 19-year-old Shyanne Harvey, came to visit and ended up shooting her in the bedroom.
“All I wanted was to get to her,” says Harvey’s mother Stacy Ahmed.
As she ran inside the house, Jordan turned the gun on her and her four-year-old grandson. Ahmed scooped the boy up and ran outside despite being shot in the hip.
“I actually saw the flash from the gun and I heard the shot. And I heard her fall. What I didn’t hear was her cry for me, her scream, her saying anything,” she tells WSB’s Sandra Parrish.
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As she lay wounded outside, Ahmed yelled for officers to help her daughter. Among those was Williams.
“The only thing I could do was pray over her and keep her conscious and wait for EMS to get there to further render aid,” he says.
Harvey died within hours and Ahmed was wrenched with guilt that her daughter suffered alone.
Williams, who has only been an officer just over two years, heard about her anguish and reached out to the family on social media.
“As a parent myself, I would want to be notified if my daughter was going through something like that,” he says.
Ahmed, who at first didn’t see his message, was sent a screenshot of the post by her brother.
“The absolute amount of heart wrenching pain that I’ve got right now… it made it better. It took a little nick off the edge knowing that someone, who has a daughter himself, was with my baby when I couldn’t be,” she says.
Williams also attended her daughter’s candlelight vigil at their home with his wife and daughter.
A local Facebook page, dedicated to highlighting good deeds by law enforcement officers, posted about Williams' actions a week later. It has since been shared nearly 30,000 times and reached more than 3 million people.
Ahmed is now looking to relocate her family and raise her grandson away from the home that brought so much pain.
“I can’t sleep in this house. My daughter was murdered across the hall from my bedroom. My grandbaby and me were shot here,” she says.
A GoFundMe page has been set up to help not only with funeral expenses but to also help the family find another place to live.
As for the suspect, Jordan is being held on one count of malice murder and three counts of aggravated assault. After leaving the home, he shot another woman in the head and then carjacked her before being caught. He was out on parole at the time.