A Queens father shot dead the day before his 40th birthday has rushed to help a friend who had just been groped by a gunman, said his mother was devastated.
Rahsaun Williams, 39, mouthed off to a gun-packing snitch at about 7:30 pm Friday after Williams’ on-again, off-again girlfriend called him to say someone else had slapped her buttocks, police and family said.
The dispute turned physical and the other man pulled out a gun and shot Williams in the abdomen and left shoulder, according to police.
“The world is just crazy right now,” mother Beverly Williams told The Post Tuesday as she planned her son’s funeral. “I don’t know what happened to the guns. They all have guns.”
The man who shot Williams – whose birthday was Wednesday – is still reeling as his grieving family tries to make sense of the senseless violence.
Beverly Williams is quoted as saying that her son is “her king”.
“My old man always said he was my favorite,” said the 62-year-old retired home health aide.
“No, he’s not my favorite. He’s the only one that stuck out to me. He went where I went. If someone is breathing hard on me, they don’t have it – don’t mess with their mother.
“He always protects me, my protector,” she continued to cry. “It’s tragic, really tragic. I would never dream of anything like this, not in a million years.
Death has left her “walking through nightmares,” the devastated matriarch said.
“This boy is my heart,” he said. “He just tore my heart out.”
Friends, family and neighbors set up memorials outside the home with candles, empty Hennessy bottles, teddy bears and message boards filled with heartbreaking missives about Williams nicknamed “Badness.”
“Rest in peace, King,” was the message about the slain man, who had two daughters and a son.
His 16-year-old daughter, Cashnere Williams, vowed to “protect the legacy and the family.”
“mma make sure your name, BAD lives on, I love you forever and your baby will miss you,” Cashnere wrote.
Beverly Williams said her son just moved into a new apartment in Jamaica, Queens, and the family had planned to go to the Barclays Center on Saturday for Nick Cannon’s “Wild ‘N Out Live” to celebrate his upcoming birthday.
But the celebration never came.
“My son is gone,” she cried. “He’s gone.”
Latasha Nicolson, Cashnere Williams’ mother, added that Williams was a creative soul who loved Red Lobster, loved theme parks and enjoyed the holidays.
“He’s very creative,” she said. “They make Halloween costumes, and they do trick-or-treating with the kids. I don’t know how it’s going to work for this year.
“He does the holidays, the ugly Christmas sweaters — that’s him.”
Beverly Williams said she nicknamed her son “Badness” because he fell in the tub and broke his ankle when she was nine months pregnant.
“I said, ‘Oh, this kid is going to be a problem,'” he said. “But he’s never been a problem. He’s just Rashaun Badness.
Williams, who has the first three letters of her mother’s name tattooed on her neck, also loves rap music and was in the music video for Jay-Z’s 1999 song, “Do It Again,” when she was younger, her family said. said.
His mother said she wasn’t surprised he died trying to help others – it was just his character.
He and the woman whose honor he rushed to defend had apparently just rekindled their relationship.
“He said someone slapped him on the back,” Beverly said. “He came, I think he was talking to a man, now my son is dead.
“People who do this are everywhere hiding and running, but you can’t run forever,” he said.
“There is no statute of limitations for murder,” he continued. “I hope he rots in jail, I really do. I hope every day of his life doesn’t go as planned.
“I hope he sits in his cell and just thinks about it.”
