A Columbus native returned home Saturday to be laid to rest, five days after his shooting death in Nashville, Tennessee.
Brock Richardson, 24, was shot outside a coworker’s residence on Saint Louis Street in Nashville at about 6:30 p.m. Monday. Richardson was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he died.
Metropolitan Nashville police officers are still searching for two suspects in the shooting. The department reported the coworker Richardson had gone to pick up got into an argument with one of the suspects at the home.
The coworker then told Richardson to wait in the car while he locked up, according to a MNPD press release. That’s when the suspects allegedly fired multiple shots, hitting Richardson.
“He was just too young,” said Gail Richardson, Brock’s mother.
Both she and her husband, Robert Richardson, described the shooting as “senseless.”
“He was trying to do a good deed,” Gail Richardson added. “He was picking up a coworker. They were on their way to work.”
Gail described her son as a country boy who loved hunting, fishing, the Dallas Cowboys and Alabama football. He was born in Columbus and graduated from New Hope High School before moving to North Dakota to work on an oil rig.
Brock moved to Nashville about six months ago where he worked for Charger Commercial Flooring. He was just beginning his adult life, Gail Richardson said. He loved his new job and had just bought his own car, and he and his girlfriend were in the process of moving into a new apartment.
“He was the type of kid who would give the shirt off his back to a complete stranger,” Gail Richardson said.
That caring nature was of course extended to his family as well, said Robert Richardson — and not just immediate family.
“Aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews,” he said. “He was all about (family).”
Brock’s sister Alisha Boyd said he was the type of person who could find the good in anything.
“He could be having the worst day of his life, but he always had a smile on his face,” she said.
Brock’s funeral was Saturday in the chapel of Memorial Funeral Home, and he was buried at Murrah’s Chapel Cemetery in Columbus.
Gail Richardson has asked the community to keep her son and the family in her prayers.
“I just hope they catch the people who did it,” she said.
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