KILLEEN, Texas — A Bell County teenager is facing murder and aggravated assault charges with a $2 million bond after a deadly shooting that left one man dead and two others injured. Now, the suspect's mother is breaking her silence, claiming her son acted in self-defense.

Reshawn Ellison, 17, is accused of shooting 52-year-old Jahid Hombre Black and two of Black's sons in March of this year. Ellison, who was 16 at the time, will be tried as an adult.

Robbin Lawson, Ellison's mother and a parent of nine children, sat down to share her son's story. She wants people to know who Reshawn is beyond the charges.

"He's very smart, he has a lot of ambition," she said. "He actually wants to go to the service."

According to Lawson, the confrontation was preceded by an altercation at school ear

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