Detroit woman who lost her only son in a shooting is now raising her grandkids

For a mother who has lost a child, Mother’s Day is a difficult time. Marilyn Fortner, who lost her only child, says for her, the day is almost unbearable. “It’s very empty,” she said. When Fortner lost her son in a shooting last year, she says her world completely fell apart. The tragedy that claimed the life of her only child happened just eight days before Mother’s Day.