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Erratic driving led authorities to pull over a young man in Georgia in January, when they discovered 21-year-old Malachi Mitchell's dead body inside

After months of investigation, the case was closed and authorities said it was self-defense

But Malachi's mom disagrees and says a private autopsy contradicts that assessment

Kenya Mitchell says her friends and family want her to move on with her life after the bizarre death of her eldest son , Malachi, early this year.

She won't.

“Dad, brothers, my mom — they are all like, 'You’ve got to keep moving, you’ve got other kids, don’t let it consume you,' ” Mitchell, a 39-year-old mom of five, tells PEOPLE. “How can it not? I try to rest my mind. My mind is hard to rest.”

Only two people, it seems, know exactly what happened t

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