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“I want answers,” said Isiah Haggins Sr., father of Isiah Haggins Jr. “And I want the truth.”

Haggins’ grandmother, Kay Haggins, wants to see Step-N-Style’s surveillance video as proof that her grandson posed a threat to the store owner.

“I want to know what happened, where he was shot?” she said. “Was it self-defense? Because it’s their word and he’s not here to speak for himself. We don’t know. We are just going by what (the store owner) said. I just want to know how my grandchild died.”

Another store owner said: “These incidents have escalated over the years. You used to only have to worry about fights outside. Now we have to worry about guns inside.”

Haggins’ family said he had been in some troubles in the past — he’d been expelled from Trotwood-Madison High School because of bad grades, behavior problems and for shoplifting — but that he also was an intelligent, talented musician. His maternal grandmother, Carrie Gober, said her grandson produced other people’s music in her house, he started hanging with the wrong crowd.

“He started hanging with some guys that I didn’t know. I just didn’t feel comfortable with the boys,” Gober said. “I told little Isiah that I didn’t feel comfortable with them. I didn’t know them. I didn’t trust them.”
Gober said she argued with her grandson about his new friends, but that he hadn’t been mixed up in a bad crowd until perhaps recently.

“Just because he had dreds and tattoos, that doesn’t mean he was a thug,” she said. “He wasn’t. He was a home baby. He loved to be home. I don’t know what happened to make him go down that road. It’s not him.”
Haggins’ father said he wonders about everything that happened with his son Monday.

“What was going through his mind? I had spoken to him that morning and we were supposed to hang out,” the elder Haggins said. “He wanted to go shopping, so he was going to call me back. He never called me back.”

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