US shooting victim's mother looking for answers

Wanda Cooper Jones can't stay away from the spot near the corner of Holmes Road and Satilla Drive in Brunswick, Georgia.

It's where her son, Ahmaud Arbery, was shot and killed in February.

The two men arrested in connection with his death told police they thought he was a burglar.

"My baby is gone. I mean, that's what all matters to me. He's gone and he's never coming back," Cooper Jones told the Associated Press.

The 25-year-old's mother says her son would run every day, sometimes twice a day. It was a way to clear his head.

"I asked him all the time why you run, because Mom, I want to stay in shape," she said.

Three months on, his name has become a hashtag and a call for justice.

But to the ones who knew him, Arbery was simply a young man working to figure out what's next.

After some legal troubles that started in his late teens, he was hoping to go back to school to become an electrician like his three uncles.

"The system failed Ahmaud Arbery and the people of Brunswick. The system bent over backwards not to make an arrest, to distort the facts and the law to justify Ahmaud's killing," Lee Merritt, Arbery's family's attorney said.

On a recent Sunday afternoon in Brunswick, a caravan made its way through the Satilla Shores neighborhood to remember a life ended - but one that has birthed a new calling.

"The day that I laid him to rest, that was my promise, that I would get answers. That was the last thing that I told him the day of his funeral that I would get to the bottom of it," Cooper Jones said.