Our hearts go out to the family and friends of “ZZ” Booth, the 11-year-old boy who was shot to death in his home in Charlottesville.

On Monday afternoon, 11-year-old Aziz Damar Booth biked down the hill from his home on Sixth 1/2 Street to Tonsler Park to play basketball with his buddy Tilik Jones. The next day, Tilik, 13, was back at the basketball court, but this time he was alone.

A Charlottesville man turned himself in to police Tuesday after an early-morning shooting in Fifeville left an 11-year-old boy dead.

Aziz Damar Booth, 11, of Charlottesville, was found slain in the kitchen of a home in the 300 block of 6 ½ Street, with a fatal gunshot wound, according to Charlottesville police. Police say they found the boy after they answered a shots-fired call in the neighborhood and found 23-year-old Rueben Lewis III suffering from a gunshot wound.

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