Posted on 08/19/2022 11:49:03 PM PDT by Morgana
Alabama TikTok star Mama Tot shared her grief and frustration on the social media platform Friday, telling her 8.7 million followers how she feels after the man accused of fatally shooting her son in a botched pot deal turned himself in and was charged with murder.
Ophelia Nichols, the real name of the social media star, told how she felt a sense of sorrow when she first saw a photo of Reuben Gulley, 20, who Prichard, Ala., police say shot her son, Randon Lee, 19, in a local gas station.
'I am not happy,' she said. 'When I seen that mugshot last night, I thought to myself, 'My goodness, he's just a baby.'
She said she saw comments from the suspect's teachers online saying 'he was a lovely young man.' 'I'll be he was,' she said. 'That just made me think within 11 seconds he made a decision to just throw his life away.'
Nichols said she found commonality between Gulley's life and her son's.
'There's one thing that he and my baby child had in common and that is that they both have a mother that would do absolutely anything for them,' she said, choking back tears. 'So remember that there are two families that are hurting. There's two of us.'
Gulley, of Saraland, Ala., turned himself in Thursday at the Mobile County Jail on a warrant for his arrest for Lee's murder.
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Legalize it. Disincentivize the business being done by dumb kids.
Tik Tok Megastar.....Huh, who knew
Yep
If not mistaken didn’t she say he was killed 10 or so days before that?
She spoke about his murder with the same amount of anger and sorrow as say after another person might have been lied to about a car warranty. Mostly dry eyed the entire time with no visible sign of undue stress. I know people show grief differently but just AS a casual observer I don’t see much of it from her.
Yet she has ALMOST 9 MILLION followers.
Her son had a fine Moe haircut.
What is she famous for? Does she get naked or just run her pie hole?
Right! She was too composed during this video. SMH.
He was killed in June. SMH.
https://nypost.com/2022/08/19/arrest-made-in-murder-of-tiktok-star-ophelia-nichols-son/
He died of natural causes. Natural to his way of life.
Didn't the Trayvon Martin family battle over t-shirt royalties?
“Yet she has ALMOST 9 MILLION followers.”
How many are Chinese bots?
He was such a gooood boy
Sociopaths. A bunch of sociopaths.
“Legalize it. Disincentivize the business being done by dumb kids”
Because gubmint taxes and red tape gets passed onto the consumer. The black market will thrive with lower costs. Everyone loves a deal.
Are we supposed to grieve for the death of a druggie?
were involved in the illegal drug trade
It won’t be illegal much longer there. I’m already smelling skunk weed stink all over randomly in my travels.
A local outdoor sporting goods store closed here in Jacksonville, FL and the owner sold the building for $3 million. It was bought by some corporate dopers from Pennsylvania who will put a weed “dispensary” right across the street from a Costco and amongst the biggest shopping area here.
I live about 6 miles from Prichard. Any little white boy hanging out in Prichard has a life expectancy of about 15 minutes. A little white boy dealing drugs in Prichard has a life expectancy of about 5 minutes. He made a very, very bad decision. Prichard is 90% black. The 7% of whites are likely those who live on the outskirts of town in their own little enclaves. Normal white people do not hang out in Prichard.
Problem is,they are selling a respite from the harsh world and their own personal harsh world. And the baggage from the shortlived respite is heavy. With or without it, these users won’t function very well in the long run.
We are seeing the results of defacto legal opiate, psychotropic, and marijuana use with all the deaths and problems from overdosing, homelessness, psychotic behaviours, and traffic accidents.
Hey, Daily Mail...NO ONE on Tik-Tok is a ‘mega-star’ or any other kind of ‘star’...they are just grifters, taking advantage of other ignorant and lonely people.
They should consider taking the wheels off the jail and putting it on a permanent foundation. Would make it a lot easier for criminals to find the jail and turn themselves in...
If this woman truly cared for her son, she would have warned him twice and then turned him in to the police. His life in jail would have been hard, but it would have been life, not death.
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