Angel Mom Urges Incoming DHS Chief to Act After Son Killed by Illegal Alien Gang Member [WATCH]

A California mother whose 13-year-old son was killed in a gang-related shooting in 1994 is calling on incoming Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to take action, sharing her story decades after the loss, as reported by Fox News.

Angie Morfin, a grandmother and “Angel Mom,” said her son, Ruben, was shot at point-blank range by an illegal alien gang member in Orange County, California, during the winter of 1994.

She said her message to Mullin, a Republican senator from Oklahoma set to take over at DHS at the end of the month, is direct.

Our Angel Mom Angie Morfin carries a pain no mother should ever know.

Ruben, her 13-year-old son, was executed at point-blank range by an illegal alien gang member.

Her powerful message to incoming DHS Secretary @SenMullin: “Make sure no other mother has to get the call I… pic.twitter.com/2YR1uysyJk

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“Make sure no other mother has to get the call I did,” Morfin told Fox News Digital.

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Morfin described Ruben as a young teenager with no gang affiliation who had been walking with friends to a party when he was chased and shot in the back of the head by Ezequiel Mariscal, a Mexican national and member of the Posole street gang.

At the time, Morfin said her family was living in Oceanside, north of San Diego, but she had sent Ruben to stay with his grandparents over the holidays due to concerns about gang activity in their area.

She recalled receiving the call shortly after midnight.

“I grabbed the phone, and I could hear my mom screaming:

‘They shot Nino, they shot Nino!”

“I knew it was my baby because that’s what we called him, because he was so small.”

Morfin said she and her husband rushed to the hospital.

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