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HOLLY HILL — “I cried on her shoulder,” Maria Hamilton said.

Hamilton said she told Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton about the difficulty she faced getting answers from local and state government and the “demonizing” of her late son, Dontre Hamilton.

Her son was 31 when he was shot and killed by a Milwaukee police officer on April 30, 2014, at a park.

Hamilton said the U.S. Department of Justice sat on the case for 10 months before they took a look at it.

“I told Hillary I was losing my mind and I wanted to go forward,” she said

Hamilton told the crowd of about 30 community members who met in the educational building at Lovely Hill Baptist Church that it took 22 months and a conversation with Clinton – who then spoke with U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch – to get the answers her family was seeking.

“They weren’t the answers we wanted to hear,” but Hamilton said if it wasn’t for Clinton’s compassion and concern, the answers wouldn’t have arrived when they did.

Hamilton and four other mothers whose children died as a result of gun violence or at the hands of police spoke Monday about their support for Clinton during the Holly Hill event.