'His Heart Will Beat Once Again': Slain Man's Organs Donated

NASHVILLE, TN -- A girlfriend doesn't know how to explain to her children that dad isn't coming home. An aunt waits at the door for a nephew she'll never see again.

And a mother, struggling from her son's murder, says there's still joy and peace, because her son will live on by helping others.

Alando Harris Jr., 22, died at Skyline Medical Center after he was shot in the head Monday on Dickerson Pike, where he'd accompanied his father, who was confronting people with whom he'd been disputing on social media, according to police. Police arrested 20-year-old Jadon Malone at the James Cayce Homes shortly thereafter and charged him with attempted murder; that charge will be upgraded, prosecutors say.

Thursday, Harris' mother learned that five people who live on because her son, who in addition to a father of two, was an organ donor.

"I got joy this morning. I got joy. I got peace this morning. I got the call this morning that his heart will beat once again,” his mother Cherriek Anglin told Fox 17. “It just brings me great joy that he is still going to live on. He’s going to live on.”

Anglin said five people will receive organs - her son's heart, lungs, liver, pancreas and both kidneys.

See Fox 17's full report for more.

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