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- IS SPEAKING OUT
TONIGHT ABOUT THE
DEATHS OF HER TWO
SONS.
THE MEN WERE BOTH
SHOT - JUST WEEKS APART
- AT A LOUISVILLE HOUSING
COMPLEX.
W-L-K-Y'S ERICA COGHILL
IS LIVE OUTSIDE POLICE
HEADQUARTERS WITH THE
DETAILS... ERICA?
A FEW WEEKS AGO,
JEANETTE HEBERT
BURIED A SON.
TODAY, SHE'S RELIVING
THAT NIGHTMARE NOW
PLANNING ANOTHER SON'S
FUNERAL.
HE WAS ONE OF TWO MEN
KILLED LAST NIGHT AT
BEECHER TERRACE.
POLICE SAY THEIR LIVES
WERE TAKEN OVER
GAMBLING.
Jeanette Hebert/Mother:
Emotional.
I lost two sons due to violence
and
I'm so tired of losing our
children
due to violence.
JEANETTE HEBERT'S 29-
YEAR-OLD SON ROBERT
HEBERT WAS SHOT TO
DEATH LAST NIGHT AT
BEECHER TERRACE.
POLICE SAY HE AND 26-
YEAR-OLD DWIGHT
PATTERSON, JUNIOR
KILLED EACH OTHER.
Lt. Todd Kessinger/Louisville
Metro Police: We believed the
two killed each other in a
shoot-out over a dice game.
Jeanette Hebert/Mother: If we
don't
put the guns down somebody else
is going to be standing right
here in
my place saying the same thing
about their loved ones and their
sons.
GUNFIRE ALSO TOOK HER
OTHER SON'S LIFE JUST
LAST MONTH.
POLICE SAY 28-YEAR-OLD
JOHNNY HEBERT WAS
ALSO SHOT TO DEATH AT
BEECHER TERRACE.
Jeanette Hebert/Mother: I got a
call
saying my son was killed shot
and
then when they killed my other
son
Robert we was waiting for him to
come to my son's birthday party
and
he never got there he never
came.
TUESDAY WAS ROBERT'S
YOUNG BROTHER'S
BIRTHDAY.
A CELEBRATION TURNED
INTO GRIEVING.
HIS CAKE HAS NO
CANDLES TO MARK HIS
YEARS RATHER A PICTURE
OF HIS NOW DEAD
BROTHER TO MARK HIS
MEMORY.
TWO FAMILY'S HEARTS
NOW ACHING.
Jeanette Hebert/Mother: I'm so
sorry
to the family that was murdered
with
my child yesterday. I wanna
apologize and say I'm sorry to
their
family, the mother, my heart
goes
out to them because see I know
they feel my pain because I feel
their
pain and I just want it to stop.
WLKY TRIED TO REACH-
OUT TO PATTERSON'S
FAMILY, BUT WE WERE NOT
ABLE TO MAKE CONTACT.
THE HEBERT FAMILY IS
NOW HAVING A MEMORIAL
AT BEECHER TERRACE.
JEANETTE SAYS SHE
KNOWS TOO MANY PEOPLE
WHOSE LIVES HAVE BEEN
TAKEN THERE.
SHE PLANS TO SCATTER
ROSES THERE,
SYMBOLIZING ALL THE
LIVES LOST.
LIVE AT LMPD
HEADQUARTERS, ERICA
COGHILL WLKY NEWS.