Omaha police are looking for leads in the city's latest murder. Marcus Watts, 18, was gunned down near Miller Park shortly after 3 a.m. Saturday.

Officers went to 28th and Kansas Avenue to investigate a call of shots fired. That’s when they found Watts’ lifeless body lying in the street.

Just minutes earlier, Watts had called his mother’s house on his way home from a party. He reached his uncle who put him on speakerphone.

Shanetra Watts says, "He told my brother that he had run out of gas, (and asked) could we come get him. My brother woke me up, and by the time he woke me up, we heard gunshots in the (background)."

Watts says she heard four shots, but never got to speak with her son. "And I went down there, and they wouldn't tell me no identification or nothing, but in my heart, I knew it was my baby."

Her baby, she says, had become the man of the house, looking after his three little sisters aged 16, 15 and 12. And, he had three babies of his own. Two year-old daughters Johnesha and Marsiah are 11 months apart. His son, Markius, is one year-old.

"When I see them,” says Watts. “I see him as a little child. He was my only son, my pride and joy."

Shanetra says Marcus, or Marc as she called him, had recently moved to Bellevue, saying he wanted to get away from the neighborhood. She doesn't know who would want to kill him.

She says she does know he was pushing the car he borrowed from her off to the side of the road, where it would be safe until they could get gasoline.

"I'm hearing different stories from different people, and I don't know what to believe." Police are looking for answers, as well.

Officer Michael Pecha tells Channel 6 News, "Investigators did go talk to neighbors in the area in an attempt to find out if anyone did witness this."

Shanetra hopes somebody will have the courage to speak up. "I don't want no revenge. I just want justice. I want to know who did this to my son."

She finds comfort in something he recently told her, that he wasn't afraid to die. “He's in a better place. The lord is taking care of him."

Police ask anyone with information to call the homicide unit at 444-5656.