A police officer, driving in his own car and in plain clothes while working an overtime detail, was right behind Meyers when the shooting happened and apprehended him when Meyers crashed his car trying to escape, police said.
Police said it appeared to be "road rage." Two other men in Meyers' car, ages 21 and 33, were questioned and released.
"I love him," Law's mother Shauta McDuffie said yesterday, still speaking of him as if he would bound through the door any minute. She caught herself. "I miss him," she said.
McDuffie could not bring herself to enter the family's home in the 1600 block of South Etting Street. On the door, she posted a note so neighbors could reach her.
She said her son would frequently walk his 4-year-old brother, Syhir Manley, home from day care in the afternoons.
"He would have his homework started when I got home," she said. "I never had a problem with him."
She lamented the city's growing violence.
"What are we going to do about all these children who are dying?" she asked.
On the way home, the brothers would stop at the Morris Market to see store owner Frank Perez and his 14-year-old son, Frank Jr., who was on the same basketball team as Law at Alcorn Middle Years Academy.
"He was the best in the neighborhood," said Frank Perez, surveying the two-aisle store. He said Law did not hang out on the corners or mix with the wrong crowd.
"He would come in here and buy things for his brother. He was a good brother. Those two were never apart."
Law turned up at the store when it first opened in 1998, and he had become as familiar and refreshing there as the ice-cream freezer in front of the cash register.
