A Washington state teen was gunned down at a car meet earlier this month — right after he eerily promised his mother that “he wouldn’t get shot.”
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Amanda Osborne shared the harrowing premonition in a Thursday interview with KING5, revealing her final conversation with son Kaleb Osborne before he was killed on Sept. 6.
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“The last promise he made was that he wouldn’t get shot,” the heartbroken mother told the outlet.
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Kaleb, 17, was fatally shot in the head and back in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood while courageously trying to break up a heated fight.
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The grieving mom was unable to view her son’s body until Wednesday.
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“That was the first time since he hugged me goodbye that I got to see him.
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I don’t want anyone to go through what I’ve been through,” she told the outlet.
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Osborne agonized over being robbed of watching her young son grow up and thrive into adulthood.
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“I don’t get to see him graduate, I don’t get to see him get married, I don’t get to see his babies.
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All I have is a lock of his hair.
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That’s all I have of him.”
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Kaleb’s friends met with Amanda on a popular hillside lookout in Thurston County, near Yelm, where Kaleb was living with his mother.
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“This was my son’s favorite place,” Amanda said.
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“All of his friends used to hang out here.
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This is how I want everyone to remember my son.
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He loved nature.
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He loved life,” Amanda said.
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She plans to have a memorial bench installed on the hillside — colloquially referred to as “Sunset” — on Bald Hill Road.
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Kyle Scharpf, a local safety and preservation activist who fights to keep Sunset safe and clean, told KING5 that he became a mentor to the teen, who he described as “lost.”
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“The kid was lost, a lot of kids are lost, especially at that age,” he said.
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“I remember being that age and it was rough.
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Kaleb took me on…
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It was such a monumental achievement for him to step forward from his position and reclaim a title.”
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Kaleb’s progress was palpable as he worked with Kyle to maintain Sunset, which is often used as a party hangout.
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“I watched a kid go from a tarnished reputation to getting job offers and people liking him,” Scharpf said.
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Amanda says that her son always had a heart of gold — he was her “best friend.”
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“If he knew someone was hurting, he tried to make you happy.
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He tried to do anything to make you smile.
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He was so funny,” she said.
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He was my best friend, I just miss him so very much.”
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Pal Tanner Wilks told the news station that Kaleb was “like a younger brother” to him, and that Kaleb’s passion for cars led him to the car meet — also known as a “street takeover,” an illegal gathering where drivers and onlookers block off roads to perform dangerous stunts.
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“Kaleb was like a younger brother to me,” Wilks said.
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The heroic teen was gunned down while trying to de-escalate an intense argument.
“Kaleb was trying to de-escalate the situation,” Wilks explained, adding that “he was trying to protect and calm things down and be a peacemaker in a situation that got out of hand.”
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A fundraiser has been set up for Kaleb’s funeral costs.
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The Seattle Police Department did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
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