A Prince George’s County judge ended the probation of a teenager just over four years after he fatally shot 13-year-old King Edward Douglas.

The boy, then 12, admitted to second-degree murder in the April 2021 shooting outside a Dave & Buster’s in Capitol Heights, Maryland, according to The Washington Post. He was found “involved” — the juvenile court’s term for guilty — after pulling the trigger during a fight between two groups. (RELATED: DC AG Claims With Straight Face Youth Crime Is Under Control In His City)

Douglas’s mother, Ja’Ka McKnight, sat in the courtroom Monday morning as the now-17-year-old appeared for the last time.

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Tears streamed down McKnight’s face as she told Judge Wytonja Curry she never supported the indefinite probation sentence and did not want her son’s killer to walk free without serving jail time.

“Since day one, I’ve been against releasing,” McKnight told the Post. “I’ll allow God to be God … Whatever the court allows it to be, I’m allowing it to be.”

Curry reportedly sided with the defense, noting the teen had completed court-ordered services and improved in school, and formally closed the case. The ruling ended years of probation in a case that highlighted youth violence in the area and left Douglas’s family questioning Maryland’s juvenile justice system.

Seated between his lawyer and mother, the teen told the judge he had changed since the shooting, the Post reported.

“I’m a changed person. I was 12 years old when it happened … Life hit me all at one time,” he said.

Prosecutors nearly ended his probation more than a year ago, but they discovered online videos of him rapping about gun violence and other crimes, according to the Post. At a May 2024 hearing, Lynn Celestin-Antonin, head of the county’s youth justice unit, said the teen had “treated probation like a joke,” prompting the court to extend the terms.

McKnight has repeatedly criticized what she and prosecutors described as a lenient punishment, calling it “a slap on the wrist.”

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While on probation, the teen lived at home under conditions that included anger management and family counseling, according to the Post. (RELATED: Town Passes New Law That Could Jail Or Fine Parents Whose Kids Cause ‘Public Disturbance’)

McKnight has since joined other grieving mothers in advocacy work and says she will continue in her son’s memory, the Post reported. She has called for tougher accountability for juvenile offenders, citing proposals such as allowing 14-year-olds in Washington, D.C., to be tried as adults for certain crimes — a measure supported by congressional Republicans and the Trump administration.