DETROIT (FOX 2) – It’s been one month since a Detroit mom misplaced her son in a violent theft – and she or he thinks somebody focused him as a result of he was a profitable rapper.

Tuesday is Deandre Younger’s birthday, and he ought to be celebrating along with his children and his mother. The hip-hop artist would’ve turned 40.

Final month, somebody robbed and killed him on the 16000 block of Prest Road

With a heavy coronary heart.and her son’s picture on her T-shirt, Darlene Strougher-Carey talked concerning the lack of her oldest son.

“Everyone is gloomy,” she stated. “It’s laborious to consider that he’s actually gone, as a result of he was probably not a violent-type particular person.”

Strougher-Carey says on January 15, somebody known as Deandre Younger to Prest on Detroit’s northwest aspect.  That was the place Younger was robbed and shot to loss of life.

His mom believes it was a setup.

” who you’re,” she stated. ” why you known as him to the situation. Flip your self in. Give all people some closure of this, as a result of he didn’t deserve this.”

Family members describe Deandre, whose nickname was ‘Pleasure Highway,’ as a loving, caring household man.  He leaves behind 4 youngsters.

Darlene Strougher-Carey says somebody focused her son as a result of he was a profitable rapper.

“As a result of similar to in one in all his data,” she stated. “He died the identical approach his report stated: You rob Peter to pay Paul. So, that is what they did. they robbed him and killed him.”

Younger’s mom says the one approach she’ll discover peace is that if the killers are caught. When you’ve got any details about who or the place they’re, name Detroit police or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-SPEAK-UP. You possibly can earn a $2,500 reward, and you’ll stay nameless.