Prichard Mother In National Spotlight

A Prichard woman was featured on national television Wednesday night telling a powerful story about how she worked for seven years to find her son's killer.
Melinda Holifield appeared on the program "Personal Justice" aired on the cable channel TLC.
It was the night of September 12th, 2000 when Holifield said she got a call from her 13 year old nephew.
The boy was with Melinda's son, Jett Holifield, at a gas station near Dr. Martin Luther King Avenue and Meaher Street when Jett was killed by a masked gunman on a bike.
Melinda rushed to the scene.
She said, "I took my sister by her hand. I said, 'I'm not going nowhere till I find my baby.' I think I walked about 50, or 75 feet and I fainted because I saw my son laying there."
Holifield said Prichard Police investigated the crime.
Months turned into years, but there was still no arrest.
Holifield said, "So, I just got tired, and I started praying and I asked the Lord, I said, 'Lord, please send me an angel.' "
Holifield said she then met a reporter with the Press-Register newspaper who wrote stories on the unsolved crime.
The state attorney general's office reopened the case in 2007 and, soon after, Tarrance Shavers was arrested.
Holifield said, "It'll never be the same, but I can cope with it better than I did eight years ago."
And, eight years later, Holifield's story is being shown on television across the country.
She said, "I hope this series, this movie, helps somebody else. I want to tell them that, no matter what, don't give up on your child."
This past August, Tarrence Shavers was sentenced to 3 years in prison and 17 years probation.
Holifield said she'll attend parole hearings to try to make sure Shavers doesn't become a free man.