EDINBURGH, Ind. — The mother of a 14-year-old boy is grieving the loss of her son after he was shot and killed inside an Edinburgh home Saturday night.
"He didn't deserve this," Christina Abney said. "He was a sweetheart. Everybody that met Jon loved Jon."
Abney said her son, Jonathon Elliott, was full of life.
"Jon was so happy. He was just such a good kid, and it's not what I was expecting, and now, I have to try to come up with the money to bury my child," Abney said.
According to Abney, Elliott was at his older sister's home with other family members when he was killed. Pedro Castillo Salmeron, 20, was also at the home and is accused of firing the bullet that claimed Elliott's life.
"Pedro is my foster son, and we were working on his citizenship, and he just shot him. I don't even know why. I don't have any clue why," Abney said.
Edinburgh police said Salmeron was later arrested and taken to the Johnson County Jail.
"DCS was helping him with his citizenship. I was his host home and so we gave him a place to live, took him in as our family. We loved him. Jon loved him, and he took him away from me," Abney said through tears. "He took him away from his brothers, he took him away from his sisters. He killed him in front of his nieces, his niece and his nephew, my grandbabies were in the room."
Abney said the shooting wasn't an accident.
"You don't pull a trigger on a gun on accident. He pointed it at my son, and he shot my son in the chest," Abney said.
Abney described her son as someone who loved video games and making everyone laugh.
"When he was little, he was sitting in the back seat playing some song, and he's just back there bobbing his head and singing. That's just Jon and never going to see it again," Abney said.
Abney now has the heartbreaking task of planning her son's funeral.
The family has set up a fund via CashApp to help with funeral costs. The username to donate is $cabney4610.