KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. (WAVY) — The mother of the teen boy who was shot to death in the parking lot of the Avalon Fishing Pier last week said her son and the suspect charged with first-degree murder in his death had "bad blood" between them.

Zane Hughes' mother, Nicole Hassell, came out to the pier Wednesday to remember her son and to talk about the bad blood between the two teens. It's a shooting that has shaken the Kill Devil Hills community.

“I've come out here because one death is too many," Hassell said. "My son should not have died, but his death will not have been in vain. This isn't going to happen to somebody else's child. Nobody should have to feel this feeling that’s not even a feeling."

But Hassell wants people to remember her son this way:

“Zane lit up every room that he w

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