Teba Stewart said her 13-year-old son was supposed to buy school supplies on Tuesday, eat the entire refrigerator and take over the television in their bedroom.

Instead, she and dozens of others remembered their son, Ashawn Davis, who was shot and killed in an Edgewater apartment on Sunday night.

“I just want justice. … That’s all I want, right here and now, justice for my child, my NBA player,” Stewart said, pointing to two large photos of Ashawn playing basketball at Swift Elementary. “That’s all I want right now. If you can do that for me, I can sleep, I can eat, I can smile again.”

As the crowd, mostly dressed in Ashawn’s favorite color, light blue, released blue and white balloons at the corner of Division and Halsted streets, they chanted “Doodie,” Stewart’s nickname for Ashawn. Many cried as they watched the balloons rise into the sky.

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Ashawn grew up near Cabrini Green with two older sisters, ages 15 and 18. When the boy was about 10, Stewart moved her family to Iowa because she was concerned about the violence in the city, she said. Eventually they moved back to Chicago and found a place to live in Edgewater.

Shawn Childs, Ashawn’s uncle and founder of the anti-violence groups House of Hope Foundation and No Kids Die in the Chi, said his nephew grew up in difficult situations surrounded by gangs and violence.

“He was a normal kid. He was what you would call an average kid trying to find his way,” Childs said, adding that Ashawn was never in trouble.

“He was a great kid. He played basketball, rapped and smiled all day,” Childs said.

Ashawn was with several friends at an apartment in the 6000 block of North Kenmore Avenue, near his home, around 8:15 p.m. Sunday when officers responded to a report that a person had been shot.

According to a Chicago police report, officers found Ashawn lying on the floor against a wall with a gunshot wound to his left eye. A shell casing was found on the floor about four feet away from him and a bullet hole was found in the ceiling near him.

A witness told police that several young men were sitting in the living room before the shooting. The witness heard a single gunshot and one of the men scream, “Get out!”, the report said.

Autopsy results were pending, and police said no arrests had been made as of Tuesday evening.

According to the Sun-Times, at least five people have been shot on the same block this year, several of them in the same building where Ashawn was killed.

Ald. Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth (48th), whose district includes the Edgewater neighborhood, was at the vigil and told the Sun-Times she had a “really productive meeting” Tuesday with the building manager, the chief of the 24th Police District, Chicago Public Schools officials and Ashawn’s family.

“It’s very complicated, but if we don’t come together and agree on what we’re doing, it will be an obstacle to progress,” Manaa-Hoppenworth said.

She said they discussed installing surveillance cameras around the building and conducting evictions.

Manaa-Hoppenworth was moved to tears as she watched Ashawn’s family and friends mourn his loss. She said the vigil was a “beautiful” way to remember Ashawn, but added: “We just don’t want to have to do this again.”

“We want our children to be safe, not only when they walk to school on our streets, but also when they are in their buildings. That takes a lot,” she said.