Mother Of Murdered Nine-Year-Old Defends Herself After Buying Car

(CBS) — The mother of murdered nine-year-old Tyshawn Lee is being bashed on the Internet for using money intended for his funeral expenses to buy a car, but she is defending the purchase.

A total of 727 people had donated to the GoFundMe site “Help Me Lay My Baby to Rest” as of 4 p.m. Saturday, contributing $17,492. The fund’s creator writes specifically on the GoFundMe page that the donations were to be used to lay Tyshawn to rest. But Karla Lee said in several profanity-laced Instagram posts that were posted Saturday, before she took the page private, that yes, she used it for a car and that her son mostly likely would approve.

“They already took my son,” she said in an enraged voice. “I walk to work. I get on the bus. I’m not trying to be a target for nobody.”