Lucinda Wade-Robinson at her south Jackson home Monday, July 7, 2025. Wade-Robinson talks of losing her son Zachary Robinson, then 22, to gun violence in 2014, and how she was denied compensation for his funeral by the attorney general's office. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
Lucinda Wade-Robinson watched her 22-year-old son, Zachary, hit the pavement feet from her front door on April 29, 2014. She saw the shooter and his friends hightail it to the highway. Her neighbor helped her son into a her car as he bled out.