More than 100 people attend vigil for honor roll student killed after leaving work

NEWTON COUNTY, Ga. — More than 100 people attended a vigil for a 16-year-old honor roll student who was killed after he was getting off work in Newton County.

Quinten Martin was working double shifts to save money for a car and wanted to become a pilot. He was gunned down after a shift at Zaxby's last week.

The teen had survived unthinkable tragedy to become the kind of young man nearly everyone we

spoke to called a "good kid."

Channel 2 Action News first reported on Martin when he was just 8 years old. Two days after Thanksgiving, on Nov. 28, 2010, Martin was at his home in Clarkson with his mother, grandmother and two siblings when a man attacked them.

The man stabbed Martin's mother, 24-year-old Dominique Martin, multiple times and then turned the knife on his grandmother, 44-year-old Ursula Peterson.

Martin's killer is still on the run.

At a vigil Tuesday night, teachers, family and friends gathered at his school's auditorium to pray and share stories about Martin. Friends dedicated a chair to him and wrote heartfelt messages about how they will miss him.

"I'm still trying to figure out why it happened to a good kid, someone who didn't do anything," said his grandmother, Teresa Foster.

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The vigil gave Martin's grandparents a chance to feel something other than anger toward whoever killed the honor student they raised together.

"It showed he was loved, everybody showing their love, big heart, he had a big heart," said his grandfather, Roddrick Foster.

Teresa Foster said she raised him since he was 3 months old and needs closure now that he's

gone.

"I haven't slept because I'm wondering what kind of conscience you have to do that to someone and still walk around here like it's OK," she said. "I just want somebody to tell me something so I can have closure about my boy."

The support from the school community is helping them grieve but now Martin's family wants help getting justice too.

"I'm really begging and crying, just please, let us know," she said.

The Newton County Sheriff's Office is asking anyone with information to contact them.

Martin will be buried alongside his mother and grandmother on Saturday. A GoFundMe has been set up to help the family with expenses. You can donate here.

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