not in the hood or project
looked like a pretty nice residential neighborhood for memphis
he was calling for his mom so she must have lived close
I once read the same thing about our troops in a terrible attack in Vietnam, the one concerning that movie "We Were Soldiers Once, and Young"—that in real life, some of the soldiers were calling for their mothers as they lay wounded and dying.
I imagine it is almost a primal response, and probably has always gone on in horrible warfare, but has been hushed up because of the heartrending shame our brave youths would feel if it were known. I cried for an hour after I read that account, having known many guys who went to Vietnam.
His mother’s house was within 50 or 60 yards of where he was beaten.