demetrius's aunt joins us now. thank you for being here. know this is so hard and some of his friends and family is here tonight. how is polly, his mom, doing? >> basically, she's distraught. she's basically not functioning. that was her only son. that was my only nephew. he was 15 years old. there was nothing that he could have done to anyone that would want someone to do that to him. he was about 4 foot 7 in height and about 97 pounds. they burned him alive in a garbage can. he wasn't in a gang. he didn't do drugs. what is it that he could have done so bad that a monster would take his life like that, and two blocks from his home. we have to pass that block every time we visit my mom. i can't go into the house without hearing him saying tete, i did this or did that. he was looking so forward to high school. he only did two weeks of high school. he wanted to be on the swim team. he loved dogs. he loved animals. why would you do that? why would you burn someone alive and then why is there such a code of silence that you did not hear him hol

demetrius' aunt, rochelle sykes, spoke with us about the murder. >> he wasn't in a gang.'t do drugs. what is it that he could have done so bad that a monster would take his life like that? and then two blocks from his home? we have to pass that block every time we visit my mom. i can't go into the house without hearing him say -- he was looking so forward to high school. he only did two weeks of high school. he wanted to be on the swim team. he loved dogs, he loved animals. why would you do that? why would you burn someone alive? and then why is there such a code of silence that you did not hear him hollering for help and did nothing? >> laura: no one saw anything? >> no one saw anything. >> laura: no one said they saw anything. did mayor emanuel call you? >> we have not heard from either one of them yet. >> laura: [laughs] is not acceptable to any of you? >> no. >> laura: rather than staging protests, may be the end, should focus on safety, family, personal responsibility, and education, some of them are. but their foundations, all of those, for real social justice. when

emotional toll this violence takes and a few examples more upsetting to the core and the cause of demetriusrif ith junior, 15-year-old boy reportedly burned alive after a gang tried unsuccessfully to recruit him. his aunt, mrs. sikes spoke to us about the murder. >> he wasn't in the gang, he didn't do drugs, what could he have done so bad a monster would take his lifelike that. two blocks from his home, we have to pass that block every time we visit my mom. i can't go into the house without hearing him saying, t.t.i did this or that, he was looking so forward to high school, he only did two weeks of high school. he wanted to be on the swim team. he loved us. he loved animals. why would you do that? why would you burn someone alive and then why is there such a code of silence that you did not hear him hollering for help and did nothing? >> laura: no one saw anything? >> no one saw anything. >> laura: no one said they saw anything. did mayor manual call you? >> no, we have not heard from either one of them yet. >> laura: is that acceptable to any of you? >> no. >> laura: rather than staging p