20-year-old man shot to death in Mobile County was ‘the absolute best truly,’ loved ones say
A GoFundMe has been organized to help with funeral expenses for a young man killed in Mobile County on Monday night.
According to the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office, Landon Phillips, 20, was found in his vehicle after being shot at 111201 Trace Lane.
Phillips’s aunt, Mikka Jones, said in the GoFundMe description that her nephew was loved by many and was the “absolute best truly.”
“We all loved Landon more then word’s can begin to say if you needed him he was just a call away,” Jones said. “He’d help anyone. He was such an amazing son amazing nephew amazing boyfriend, amazing grandson he was the absolute best truly.”
The sheriff’s office said the shooter, Jason Covington, allegedly admitted to shooting at Phillips’s vehicle.
Witnesses said that Phillips was arguing with another individual when Covington came out of the house with a shotgun and told Phillips to leave, according to the agency.
That is when Covington is said to have fired two shots at Phillips’s car, striking Phillips and killing him.
Covington was arrested and charged with murder, shooting into an occupied vehicle/building and certain persons forbidden for possessing a pistol.
Jones said that Landon leaves behind many including his mom, dad and eight siblings.
Jones said that all donations to assist in Phillips’s burial were appreciated and the funds would go directly to the funeral home.
“We’ve never been the type to ask for help ever but, God we sure do any an everyone’s help so we can lay Landon to rest properly,” Jones said.
“If you’re able to donate please do a thank you in advance truly from the bottom of our hearts if your, not please pray we need all the prayers we can get truly to. Me an my husband loved Landon like he was our very own and, we called him that to so, this pain were feeling of (losing) a child we wouldn’t wish this on our worst enemy not even the devil himself this is the worst.”