8 months after unsolved murder, Dorchester mom begs for answers

BOSTON -- A Dorchester mother searching for answers and making a plea for help in her son's heartless murder.

Aice Jackman was shot and killed in broad daylight near Blue Hill Avenue in July of 2017, but in the eight months since then police have not made an arrest.

"To this day I’m still in shock, like, my sons going to come home, going to come through this door," Aice’s mother Kaiesha Skinner told Boston 25 News reporter Bob Ward.

Skinner is open about her son’s struggles and the time he served in Department of Youth Services custody after a stolen car arrest, but she’s also quick to point out that he also got his high school diploma.

"He would have went places. He would have. He would have went far, had he gotten away from here," she said.

Ten minutes before he was killed, Aice spoke to his mother and told her he was stopping to buy marijuana. She had no idea that was going to be their last conversation.

"You all don’t know the knife that is plunging through my heart. No one knows what it is for me, daily," she said.

With no arrest made for his murder, Skinner is worried that she may never see justice.

"I feel a lot of hurt, a lot of anger, and I feel that somebody seen and heard and somebody needs to say something but because no one is willing to come forward it’s not going to go nowhere," she said.

Aice was killed just days after he turned 18. His mother said she’s left with memories but they can’t dull the pain of his death.

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