提尔·尼科尔斯，这个月死于五名警察他的母亲罗·沃恩·威尔斯在周一的新闻发布会上说。
据29岁的尼科尔斯的母亲说，自从疫情事件以来，他一直和父母住在田纳西州的孟菲斯。尽管尼科尔斯去世时住在孟菲斯，但他此前曾住在加利福尼亚。
他刚刚开始在联邦快递工作，和他的继父罗德尼·威尔斯一起工作。
“他在我的工作中非常非常受爱戴。罗德尼·威尔斯说:“每个人都打电话给我，为我祝福、祈祷，并对发生的事情表示同情。”。
“他只在联邦快递工作了九个月，但你应该看到爱和支持的涌出，”RowVaughn Wells说。
威尔斯夫妇说，尼科尔斯热衷于滑板和摄影，这是他周末休息时的爱好。
“摄影帮助我以一种更有创造性的方式看待世界，”尼科尔斯在他的摄影页面。“它以我无法为人们写下来的方式表达了我。”
他的母亲回忆起儿子去世前三天的早晨。她说她一直在为那天下午的晚餐准备鸡肉，并计划用他最喜欢的方式烹饪。在周五的新闻发布会上，她说尼科尔斯在最终致命遭遇的那天，正从谢尔比农场(Shelby Farms)过来，这是一个他喜欢去的当地公园，拍摄日落。
根据孟菲斯警方的报告，由于“鲁莽驾驶”，警察在那个星期五让尼科尔斯靠边停车，他试图在最终被逮捕之前逃离警察。他在被捕期间抱怨呼吸急促，之后被送往医院，情况危急。三天后——1月10日——尼科尔斯去世了。
根据家人委托的初步独立尸检，尼科尔斯遭受了“严重殴打造成的大出血”他的家人和律师说，这位6英尺3英寸的男子也患有克罗恩病，体重只有145磅。
“我甚至很难理解这一切，因为它现在对我来说不是真实的。…我现在什么都不知道，”RowVaughn Wells说。“我只知道我的儿子提尔不再和我在一起了，”她补充道。
“我知道每个人都说他们有一个好儿子，或者说每个人的儿子都很好，但是我的儿子呢?他其实是个好孩子，”她说。
在调查中，RowVaughn Wells说她只是希望人们记住她的儿子是一个“美丽的灵魂”
“我们将为提尔讨回公道，哪怕这是我最后一口气，”她说。
因与尼科尔斯之死有关而被解雇的五名孟菲斯警察塔达留斯·比恩、德米特里厄斯·哈利、埃米特·马丁三世、小德斯蒙德·米尔斯和贾斯汀·史密斯，均被控二级谋杀。
尼科尔斯留下了一个4岁的儿子。
他被前警官殴打的人体摄像镜头将于周五公布，尼科尔斯家族的律师称其为“骇人听闻”、“可悲”、“令人发指”、“暴力”和“各种程度的麻烦”。
Who was Tyre Nichols, the man allegedly murdered by 5 Memphis police officers?
Tyre Nichols, the man who died this month after an alleged beating by five police officers, was "damn near perfect," his mother RowVaughn Wells said at a press conference on Monday.
The 29-year-old Nichols had been living in Memphis, Tennessee, with his parents since the pandemic, according to his mother. Although he lived in Memphis at the time of his death, Nichols had previously lived in California.
He had just started a job at FedEx working alongside his stepfather, Rodney Wells.
"He was very, very beloved at my job. Everybody's calling me with blessings, prayers [and] showing sympathy for what happened," Rodney Wells said.
"He only worked at FedEx for maybe nine months, but you should see the out pour of love and support," RowVaughn Wells said.
The Wells' said that Nichols was passionate about skateboarding and photography, hobbies he engaged in during his downtime on weekends.
"Photography helps me look at the world in a more creative way," Nichols stated on his photography page. "It expresses me in ways I cannot write down for people."
His mother recalled the morning three days before her son's death. She said she had been preparing chicken for dinner that afternoon and planned to cook it his favorite way. At a press conference Friday, she said that Nichols was coming from Shelby Farms, a local park where he liked to go and take pictures of the sunset, on the day of his ultimately fatal encounter.
Officers pulled over Nichols that Friday due to "reckless driving," according to Memphis police reports, and he attempted to flee from the officers before being eventually arrested. He was hospitalized in critical condition after complaining of shortness of breath during the arrest. Three days later -- Jan. 10 -- Nichols died.
According to a preliminary independent autopsy commissioned by the family, Nichols suffered "extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating." The 6 foot, 3 inch, man also had Crohn's disease and weighed just 145 pounds, his family and attorneys said.
"It's just so hard for me to even fathom all of this because it's not real to me right now. … I don't know anything right now," RowVaughn Wells said. "All I know is my son Tyre is not here with me anymore," she added.
"I know everybody says they have a good son or that everybody's son is good, but my son? He actually was a good boy," she said.
Amid the investigation, RowVaughn Wells said she just wants people to remember her son as a "beautiful soul."
"We will get justice for Tyre, if that's the last breath I take," she said.
Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr. and Justin Smith, the five Memphis police officers who were fired in connection with Nichols' death, have each been charged with second-degree murder.
Nichols leaves behind a 4-year-old son.
Body camera footage of his alleged beating by the former officers, is set to be released Friday, and has been described as "appalling," "deplorable," "heinous," "violent" and "troublesome on every level" by the attorney for the Nichols family.
