A Georgia mother died of a broken heart just days after her 20-year-old son was discovered savagely beaten to death at her home, according to family members.
Tasha Lawson, 48, died from heart complications at a hospital in Waycross on April 13, just 11 days after her son, Tee’Andrick Lawson, was found dead in his bedroom — which relatives believe was a hate crime due to his sexual orientation, WTOC reported.
The mom’s death was ruled to be from “natural causes” from an “aortic dissection rupture, hypertensive, and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.”
Her family said it showed the mom died “from sheer heartbreak.”
“Tee’Andrick and his mother were inseparable. Their bond was deep and unbreakable — best friends who did everything together,” said a GoFundMe page raising money for the mom and son’s funerals.
“The pain of losing her son was too much for her heart to bear.”
Tee’Andrick Lawson was killed on April 2, which family members said was at the hands of two men who broke into the house while his mother was away. They believe he was targeted over his sexual orientation, which the Georgia Bureau of Investigation would not confirm Wednesday.
“He just wanted to be him,” his sister Terreona Harrison told WTOC. “He couldn’t even be him. Everybody accepted him, but the men who couldn’t accept themselves.”
Before her own death, his mom had told WTOC that her son had been “brutalized.”
“He was very bright. Got along really well. He loved to dance. Laughed a lot,” said his mother, less than a week before her death.
“I can’t wake him up and say, ‘Come go to the store with me.’ I can’t do any of that. He just didn’t deserve what they did to him. He didn’t deserve that.”
