Cleveland mother claims she witnessed her son gun down his brother: ‘Turn yourself in’

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A Cleveland mother said she was willing to give up her own life to save her son.

“I didn’t know if I should grab the shooter, or if I should grab the baby, or if I should grab Tymeir,” said Pinkie Hale. “But I was willing to die... I’m never going to be the same without him.”

Hale said she watched her son and bestfriend, Tymeir Dial, take his last breath.

Dial was shot and killed outside of his mom’s house on East 127th Street on Oct 3.

What’s worse is Hale told 19 News it was another son who pulled the trigger.

“After he shot him the first time, Tymeir was just in disbelief. His whole face was like, ‘I cannot believe my brother shot me,’” said Hale.

She shared she was moving into her new home. Tymeir and her 19-year-old son were there to help.

As she was holding her young granddaughter in her arms, she said the brothers got into a disagreement.

“They were having a disagreement. Not loud or fighting, nothing, and his brother shot and him and killed him over nothing,” said Hale. “In my mind I thought, ‘Would he shoot the baby?’ ‘Would he shoot me?’”

Cleveland police would not share any further information about the ongoing investigation.

However, as Hale tries to piece together what happened, she relives that moment on a daily basis.

“He begged him to stop, he begged him over and over again then he stood over him and shot him some more,” said Hale.

Tymeir’s family said the 23-year-old was a true family man to his parents, siblings, and beautiful 1-year-old daughter.

“Like the show ‘Everybody loves Raymond’, that’s him. Everybody loved him” said Marc Dial, Tymeir’s father.

The school Tymeir worked for shared kind words, stating, in part:

Kid after kid after kid and staff after staff shared such sweet memories of how Tymeir impacted them. We will live on in HOPE in memory of Tymeir. I’m sorry the world stole him from us, but grateful for the very short time we had with him.

Please pray for his family, his baby, our staff, the kids. He was a man like no other. He will not be forgotten. Forever 23.

Hale said she has not seen her 19-year-old son since the shooting a week ago.

She has only one thing to say to him: “Turn yourself in. Don’t hurt anybody else. Don’t hurt [yourself] in the process, just turn [yourself] in.”

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