From our partners at the Akron Beacon Journal and Ohio.com, comes this story of family members pressing investigators to solve the double homicide of a mother and son.
Sonia Freeman, 48, and her son, Christopher Lane-Freeman, 28, were killed in their West Akron home in May 2016.
As Beacon Journal staff writer Nick Glunt writes, the fatal shooting of mother and son is still unsolved 10 months later. There were 30 homicides in Akron in 2016. The Freeman case is one of 15 that remain unsolved.
“I don’t use the word ‘closure’ anymore, but we just want a sense of why this happened,” said cousin Roslyn Lane-Clark.
As News 5 Cleveland reported on May 2, 2016, authorities said a 9-year-old girl called police around 10 p.m. to report that her mother and brother had been shot.
Police believe the third grader was startled out out of sleep by her mom's screams. It's believed the intruders fled from the house shortly before the girl went to check on her mother. The girl was not injured.
When officers arrived, they 48-year-old Sonia Freeman lying on the floor near the stairs. She was transported to Akron General hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Christopher Lane-Freeman, 28, was found in an upstairs bedroom. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Family home: 1200 block of Hartford Avenue in West Akron
