Alabama TikTok sensation Mama Tot expressed her sorrow and anger on the social media platform on Friday, telling her 8.7 million fans how she feels after the man suspected of fatally shooting her son during a botched drug transaction turned himself in and was charged with murder.
Ophelia Nichols, whose true name is Ophelia Nichols, described how she felt anguish when she first saw a photo of Reuben Gulley, 20, whom police in Prichard, Alabama, believe shot her son, Randon Lee, 19, at a local gas station.
She stated, “I am unhappy.” “When I saw the mugshot last night, I thought, ‘Oh my goodness, he’s a baby!’”
She reported seeing online remarks from the suspect’s professors describing him as a “delightful young man.”
“I’m certain he was,” she said. This made me believe that within 11 seconds he decided to throw his life away.
Nichols stated that she observed parallels between the lives of Gulley and her son.
She choked back tears as she replied, “He and my infant child have one thing in common: a mother who would do everything for them.” Therefore, consider that two families are suffering. “There are two of us,”
Thursday, Gulley of Saraland, Alabama, brought himself in at the Mobile County Jail on a murder warrant for Lee.
Lee, who had just turned 19, was a local small-time pot dealer who previously sold marijuana to Gulley.
On the evening of June 24, however, surveillance film reveals that Lee and his murderer met at a gas station, both pulling up to a pump in their separate vehicles.
One of the suspects, believed by authorities to be Gulley, is seen entering Lee’s automobile, from which he fired the fatal shot.
He then returned to his own vehicle and sped away.
Lee managed to drive to another gas station after being shot, where he died, according to Prichard Police Detective Jason Hadaway.
‘At this point, we are aware that Mr. Lee had a business arrangement with many individuals. These two guys had previously purchased from him,’ the detective stated.
Lee was not on the radar of local law enforcement as a known drug dealer.
Nichols stated, “We did everything we could to keep him on the right path, but this past year everyone assumed he was since he was doing so well.” However, nobody has the right to shoot my son. That is all I can say.
She stated that hearing the community’s judgments of her kid was one of the most agonizing things.
She stated, “When this all came out, it really pained me that people in my community – people I grew up with and who shop in the same places as I do – made such horrible things about my young boy.”
“I wondered why?” You do not know him at all. Then I thought, ‘Lord, I pray she doesn’t experience it.’ Nichols remarked, referring to the mother of Gulley. She scratched her lip and shook her head.
I would not want that on anyone. That was very difficult for me,’ she said. “Neither of our children should have been there that night,” the speaker said. Neither of the two. Nichols stated, “I am aware that the road to justice will be long.” And I hope it is done correctly.
In a later-posted TikTok video, she sits in her car and expresses annoyance about the attention she’s receiving for Gulley’s arrest and the entertainment value it has for some of her fans.
My infant child’s life is not a humorous small-town gossip story from a month ago that we can joke about today. This was the life of my child, and my child was slain.