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The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office says it's identified multiple persons of interest in the weekend shooting outside Citrus Park Mall that left one 16-year-old dead.
On Tuesday, officials shared that they are currently conducting interviews and gathering evidence. Detectives have also determined that the two individuals detained Saturday evening were not involved in the shooting.
Meanwhile, the 16-year-old victim has now been identified as Peter "PJ" Hyman.
His mother said she and his two sisters are just beginning to grapple with his senseless death.
"It's not fair," Peter's mother, Bianca Cherie Cooper, said. "He had so much of his life ahead of him and he was going to be something great."
Cooper said her son was an honor student who had just started his junior year at Jefferson High School.
"He was a well-loved kid," she added. "Everybody loved him, from friends to, I have moms coming up and telling me that he's so respectful, 'He'd come to our house and if the trash needed to be taken out he'd take out the trash.'"
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