CHARLOTTE - Friends and family of Jonathan Ferrell released balloons in Charlotte’s Marshall Park Wednesday evening to mark the third anniversary of his death.
Ferrell was killed September 14, 2013 -- shot 10 times by CMPD officer Randall Kerrick.
The officer was charged with voluntary manslaughter, but a jury could not reach a verdict in his trial last year, and it was declared a mistrial. He is no longer with the department.
"It's an honor to see people still care about my brother three years after his murder," Willie Ferrell, Jonathan’s brother, said at the vigil.
Murder -- that's how Ferrell's family says he died, but they say they are not upset.
"We're not going to look at this to be sad. We're going to lift our heads up, look up high, and say we're going to change things here. We're going to make a difference,” Ferrell’s mother, Georgia, said, vowing to change policing gun violence in honor of her son.