‘He was my baby,’ mum sobs after son shot dead on bike ride with pals as she begs for anyone who knows killer to come
Share:
A MUM has begged for anyone who could lead cops to her son's killer to come forward a year after after he was shot dead while out on his bike. Ellis Cox, 19, was "making the most of a sunny day" when he was shot on the Liver Industrial Estate in Aintree, Liverpool on June 23.
Yesterday, on what would have been Ellis' 20th birthday, his mum Carolyn made a desperate appeal to catch her son's killer. In tears, she told Sky News: "He was my baby. No mum should have to bury their child. "He was kind, wise, so laid back, calm, so mature for his age.
![[Photo of Ellis Cox.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/family-tribute-issued-ellis-cox-914425634.jpg?strip=all&w=470)
"We've done first Christmas without Ellis and obviously now it's his first birthday, so this is long enough time - six months - to wait for anything. So please if you know anything don't let us wait until next birthday and still know nothing. "We need to get justice for Ellis and we need to get people who took us from us off the streets.".
![[A person holding a small dog.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/family-tribute-issued-ellis-cox-914426450.jpg?strip=all&w=447)
She added: "He was 19, but he was my baby and he was my life. And I don't know what I'm going to do without him.". In a clip shared by Merseyside Police the same day, the heartbroken mum sobbed: "I miss him. The house is too quiet. "Our conversations, he would end with 'God mum you can't half talk.' Because I would talk too much when he got home from work.
![[A young man riding a jet ski.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/family-tribute-issued-ellis-cox-914426452.jpg?strip=all&w=405)
"But he would always listen.". The teen was shot in the back after what was thought to be a confrontation between his friends and another group of males. Police were called to the estate just after 11.10pm, following a report from North West Ambulance Service paramedics, who were treating the teenager.
