Mystery solved. Except they didn’t find the book.
Via WISTV:
Keith Lamont Scott’s mother spoke to Live 5 News Thursday night and said she received one last call from her son the day he was shot in Charlotte.
According to Vernita Scott Walker, who lives on James Island, she received the call at 2:22 p.m. on Tuesday.
Vernita played the call which consisted of noises, and Keith apparently saying “Lamont.”
“And he done got shot. And he called me. Yes he did he called me,” Vernita said.”He just wanted me to know that it was him.”
Vernita didn’t find out about his death until she turned on the television.
“Later on I heard on the news, CNN or one of them about the shooting and my daughters pulled it up on Facebook,” Vernita said.
She said Keith Scott was waiting for his son to get off the bus as he does each day.
“That’s a task for him everyday, so he can be out there to get a special spot,” Vernita said.”He sits in the truck and reads his book.”
But not just any book, according to Vernita. The Quran, which she says he used to read everyday.
“He loved to read that book, he loved to read that book,” Vernita said.
And before he went to pick up his son, on the day he was shot, he was talking on Facebook about a shooting making national headlines, and hours later his name was the one in the spotlight.
She says she also received another call before the shooting.
“I said ‘I love you son’ and he said ‘I love you mama’ and that’s the first time he ever said it like that,” Vernita said.
And since the shooting on Tuesday afternoon, she says she’s upset and hasn’t appreciated the way the media has been bringing up her son’s criminal past.