I am Adam, Opies Mom, What happened was my son was uptown in Flint Saturday night June 11, 2006 with all his racing friends the usual, everyone waiting for the next race sitting in a parking lot, a Gang Member, nobody new but a few who identified him as such, came in spinning up rocks on the cars, my son , some others yelled at him to get out and knock it off, most everyone had left , except my Adam "OPIE" was his street nickname, and three of his friends, Adam was setting his timing for a nitrous run, this Gang member came back with two other gang members in a different car, jumped out, and filled my son full of bullets.....my son was on the operating table three hours, his heart stopped 12 times because of the loss of blood, the 12th time they could not get his heart going again, My son was a master Mechanic at a GM dealership, 25 yrs old, almost 26, and raced his 83 camaro for 10 years, he was able to identify his shooters, shooter was tall thin black male with braids, the other two also were black males, one of them they sent to prison for 12 to 22 yrs, the ring leader, we are still trying to get them to send the other two to prison also, since the real shooter may be this other one, We have pressured for the State Police to take over investigations, and now the State is involved, were not happy at all with only 1 killer going away, they are known as the Project Boys in Flint, that is thier Gang name.....they did not even know my son, My son would have gladly showed them tricks of how to go fast, had they only parked thier car, rather than spin rocks and damage the racers cars......That is what happened to my Son......Thank God two of his friends whom he wrenched on thier cars, and was thier mechanics identified this person for us, or we would never even know who killed our son....
Here is one of the videos I have, of my Boy racing on the John.....I always expected him to die racing his car, not from a cowards bullets....He always told his me when he went to heaven probably one of his friends was going with him, because he ususally was racing.....he loved and lived to race, that was his passion, oh and very secretive about his car and what he did to it, he even had a hiding spot we found under the dash for an extra Nitrous bottle......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFx9dnW6Bys