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Mother fears quadruple homicide case has gone cold

Her son was killed in a house that St. Louis County Police described at the time as "just as grisly as you can imagine." Now Angelia Jones wants to make sure he gets justice.

ST. LOUIS COUNTY – “As long as there’s a breath in my body, my son will get justice,” promised Angelia Jones.

She’s a grieving mother, still struggling every day with the August murder of her 18-year-old son, DeAndre Kelley Jr. He and four others were found dead in a home on Balmoral Drive in Glasgow Village, in North St. Louis County.

She said since then she hasn’t heard much from police and is worried about his case going cold.

“I would have never imagined I would have to bury my child. I wouldn't have imagined in a million years,” she said.

St. Louis County police say "the investigation remains very active and ongoing,” but they have no leads to report to the media or to the family.

“I’m still trying to rationalize that we have menaces out here on the streets that don't care whose family they hurt. They have really destroyed my family and I don't know why.”

It’s a large family—he’s one of his grandmother Diana Coleman’s 18 grandchildren. She said he always was special to her, stopping by just to say hi.

Now she talks to the pictures of him she has hanging on her walls.

“He was a good child," she said. “You know, most people you see on the news all the time, 'My child don't do this, my child don't do that.' But me, I know what every last one of my grandchildren are capable of.”

Kelley was shot in the leg the weekend before his death. Jones said the detective on his case called it random. She said it was just the first time in which he was in the wrong place at the wrong time that week.

“I wish I could do something. I just wish I can do something. Right now,” she said. “My family just wants justice for Deandre.”

Fifteen-thousand dollars in rewards are being offered for tips solving the case.

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