Mother Of Murdered OKC Teen Hopes Police Find Killer

Oklahoma City police need help solving the murder of high school student who was shot and killed at his home near NE 115th and Summit Ridge Drive last month.

Many at Oklahoma Centennial High School are still mourning the loss of 16-year-old Dazzy Sayles, who was a junior at the school and who loved basketball and music.

Many students, faculty and staff even attended his funeral in August.

But no one misses him more than his mom.

“He had his grade school teachers there, he had his principal from Norman High there, he had his principal from Centennial,” said Rozina Sayles. “And a lot of people who really know my son and he was not a gang banger.” 

That's the one thing Rozina Sayles wanted to make very clear about her son Dazzy, that he was not in a gang.

“Every child that's young and black and something bad happens does not mean they're a gang banger,” said Sayles. “He was a very well respected young man, a loving kid, did everything he could to help anybody. That's the type of child he was.”

She said her son loved basketball and music, and went to school, work and would help anyone he could.

She said they were all at home the night he was killed, at their condo on NE 115^th Street near Summit Ridge Drive. She said Dazzy just went to answer a knock at the door when bullets started flying.

“I don't know why anybody would want to hurt my son, I don't know,” said Sayles. “I don't know if it was an accident or on purpose, I don't know. I really don't know.”

A month later, you can still see where the bullets went through the window and the door. The family has moved out of their home of five years because it is just too hard for them to live there anymore.

Dazzy's mother told News 9 exactly what she remembered from that terrible night.

“There was a knock at the door,” said Sayles. “Normally I would have got up and opened the door but for some reason at that particular time, Dazzy happened to be coming down the stairs and said ‘I've got it’. I don't think he ever even opened the door. From what I can tell, the door was never opened. He said, ‘Who is it?’. I heard him say ‘Who is it?’, because we are less than five feet from him.”

Rozina Sayles said moments later their lives changed forever, when she heard shots fired outside their door.

“It sounded like firecrackers,” said Sayles. “And all the sudden my baby walks back down the hall and he had this look on his face. And I'm just assuming it scared him, and my brother looked at him and said, ‘He's bleeding!’”

Rozina said Dazzy's brother was holding him when he died.

“He looks at his hands and he just trembles that's all he can see,” said Sayles. “It is kind of a hard thing to sit there and watch the life drain out of your kid.”

Sayles said the murder has made her even more aware of other violent crimes that have happened since her son's murder.

“It’s been 30 days today that my baby's gone but in that short time period that my son has been gone, I see it every day. Over and over. This city is like destroying itself every day,” said Sayles. “I've seen someone get shot, stabbed or die and a lot of it is our young youth. Those children and young men who have died have mothers and fathers too and I would just like the senselessness to stop!”

All Rozina wants is for someone to help police find who did this to her son, and turn them in.