The grieving mother of a 6-month-old baby who was shot in his car seat said she knew her little boy was dead the moment she pressed him against her.

Kerri Gray described the moment she saw her son slumped over in his car seat after they got caught in a crossfire between two drivers.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Gray’s heart started to race when she saw a pool of blood in his lap.

“I pulled him out of the car seat and I grabbed him, and when I did that, that’s when I felt the pieces – the loose pieces in the back of his head,” the grieving mother said.

22-year-old Dequasie Jonathan Little has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault and felony murder.

Speaking of Little’s arrest, Gray said: “I think that if you get the opportunity, make better life choices, because those of us who become your collateral damage – that’s not fair. You ruined my life.”

Gray told the newspaper that she still got up to make her son’s bottle. “That was the worst feeling in the world because he was already a miracle baby.

“That was the baby that I dreamt of having my whole life. And the fact that somebody could so selfishly take him away.”

The shooting incident occurred Monday before 3 pm near the Food Mart on Anderson Avenue.

Speaking to WAGA, Gray said: “I know I heard a noise, I pulled off to the side, I saw two cars speed past me and when I pulled in, that’s when I had seen the gun barrel and next thing I know I get out to check on my son, and he was slumped forward.”

“The bullet had gone through the trunk and through his eye and up his back,” Gray told WGCL. “It hit the trunk, so there was no shattered glass, there was no crying, it was instant. So, we didn’t feel anything, hear anything.”

Atlanta police Chief Rodney Bryant said on Tuesday: “I won’t cheerlead the fact that we were able to apprehend this person in such a short period of time. I’m mad as hell that the incident occurred in the first place.

“It is such a tragedy when we lose any citizen of this city. But when it’s a child, it pulls even more at the heartstrings, not just of the men and women of the Atlanta Police Department, but throughout the community.”

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