it wasn't the police who killed pam bosley's son.early a decade later she still doesn't know who pulled the trigger. >> 70% of the cases are not solved in chicago. 70% of the cases in chicago are unsolved. the community i live in is not valued. >> reporter: pam bosley is not a statistic, she's a commentator. she did what good parents are supposed to do, yet her boy still died. >> you hear people talk about all the time what parents don't do, that their kids get in trouble because they didn't have this. you have a beautiful home, loving husband, believing in the importance of education, discipline, did everything right. >> yes. the perception of our black men is that they're all in gangs and sell drugs. that's the perception we have to get away from. a lot of them are good kids that are being killed. >> reporter: so afraid of the danger outside their front door, pam and her husband built this backyard patio. >> this is the safe haven spot that i put together for terrell. >> reporter: it didn't protect terrell. now she keeps an even ti

. >> reporter: pam bosley knows chicago's pain like few others. a doting wife and mother. that's terrell, her oldest boy, raised in the church beside her. the last time they talked that's where he was. >> he was at church. i was like, baby, be careful. he's like, ma, you're always worrying. i'm good, i don't know why you're tripping, ain't nothing going to happen to me. my next call was, my baby been shot. college freshman, never a day's trouble, gunned down on his way into choir practice on chicago's south side. terrell collapsed at the pastor's feet. >> i need you now. i need you now >> reporter: the suspected motive, a gang initiation, a wannabe hoodlum ordered to gun down a stranger. terrell bosley happened to be that stranger.