By MONA NAIR
6 News Reporter
KNOXVILLE (WATE) - Friday night family and friends gathered to remember a murder victim and urge the public to help find his killer.
It's been exactly one year since Lester Walton, 66, was killed in a drive-by shooting.
Knoxville police say a bullet tore through the window of his mother's Ashland Avenue home.
Police say Walton was not the intended target and neither was his mother's house.
At the vigil, Bernice Walton watched as candles were lit for her husband Lester. They would have celebrated their 48th wedding anniversary in January.
The couple met in high school.
"It was love at first sight," says Mrs. Walton.
Walton loved to grill out with his friends from the Elks Club.
"You name it, we cooked it, chicken wings, ribs, to beef or whatever," says friend Robert L. Minter, Jr.
Lester Walton's life taken in a gruesome crime. Bernice was sitting next to her husband when the shots were fired.
"When I hit the floor my husband was still sitting there and I knew he was shot, he didn't respond no more," says Bernice Walton.
Police believe the shooters wanted to target the house next door, but made a mistake.
No witnesses have come forward. So still, a year later, no one has been held accountable for the crime.
"We need to come together for justice," says his daughter LaRhonda Walton-Hill.
There is still a $10,000 reward on the table for help in this case. If you have any information about this case, call Knoxville Police at (865) 215-7212.
