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OUR MARTIN SAVAGE IS OUT FRONT
WITH MORE.
>> Reporter: SITTING IN HER
SON'S BEDROOM SHE READS FROM A
JOURNAL SHE STARTED SOON AFTER
17-YEAR-OLD JORDAN DAVIS WAS
KILLED.
>> EVERY WHERE I TURN JORDAN I
SEE YOU.
I KEEP REMEMBERING ALL THE
THINGS WE USED TO DO AND ALL THE
PLACES WE USED TO GO.
>> Reporter: YOU PRETTY QUICKLY
REALIZE WE ARE EAVESDROPPING ON
A CONVERSATION BETWEEN A
HEARTBROKEN MOTHER AND THE CHILD
SHE CAN NO LONGER SEE.
>> I NEED THE COUNTRY TO KNOW
YOU AND OUR GOD.
HELP ME AND YOUR FATHER TO MAKE
THE CHANGES NECESSARY TO MAKE
OUR WORLD A LITTLE BIT SAFER.
I DON'T WANT ANYONE ELSE TO DIE.
>> Reporter: IN THE SHORTHAND OF
NEWS DAVIS IS SIMPLY THE BLACK
TEEN SHOT AND KILLED BY A WHITE
MAN ALLEGEDLY OVER LOUD MUSIC.
THAT'S HOW HE DIED.
NOT WHO HE WAS.
>> HE WAS ATHLETIC.
HE LIKED SPORTS.
HE PLAYED A LITTLE BASE BUBBLE.
>> HUMOROUS.
FUN LOVING.
JOKESTER.
FULL OF A LOT OF UNDERSTANDING
AND WISDOM.
>> Reporter: DUE TO MEDICAL
ISSUES HIS PARENTS FEARED THEY
WOULD NEVER HAVE CHILDREN.
JORDAN NAMED FOR THE RIVER OF
FAME.
>> JORDAN WAS RAISED ON A STRONG
SPIRITUAL FOUNDATION AND WE HAD
HIM IN PRIVATE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
FOR A FEW YEARS UNTIL FOURTH
GRADE.
THEN PULLED HIM OUT AND I HOME
SCHOOLED HIM FROM FOURTH GRADE
TO EIGHTH GRADE.
>> Reporter: HE WASN'T PERFECT.
JORDAN'S FWRADS AND ATTITUDE
SEEMED TO TAKE A TURN FOR THE
WORSE AS AN EARLY TEEN SOME
BETWEEN LIVE WITH DAD IN
JACKSONVILLE.
SOME TOUGH LOVE TURNED HIM
AROUND.
HE BEGAN TALKING ABOUT JOINING
THE MILITARY.
BECOMING A MARINE.
MOM SAYS FRIENDS NATURALLY
FOLLOWED HIM.
HE LIKED THAT.
>> HE WAS ALWAYS WANTED TO BE
THE FIRST.
ALWAYS WANTED TO BE LEADER.
>> Reporter: THAT IS NOW ALL IN
THE PAST.
BACK IN JORDAN'S ROOM, SHE
CONFESSES TO OCCASIONALLY
WEARING HIS PRIZED AIR JORDANS.
>> IT MAKES ME FEEL HE WAS WITH
ME.
>> Reporter: THE ONLY THING SHE
CHERISHES MORE IS A PHOTO TAKEN
ON AN EARLY CHRISTMAS GIFT
JORDAN BEGGED TO HAVE, AN iPAD.