BILLINGS — A Billings family is searching for answers after 17-year-old Scott Rozell was shot and killed last Friday night at a house in the 300 block of South 33rd Street.
The details surrounding Rozell's death have yet to be confirmed by Billings police, raising concern and confusion for the family.
Hear from the family below:
According to the family, it took until Saturday afternoon to find out that Rozell had died. Rozell's brother-in-law Shawn Betancourt said that the family first learned of the incident from a neighbor.
"It took Scott's own mother to go to the house where she dropped him off that night and find out from a neighbor that there was a shooting," Betancourt said. "And having to contact dispatch herself to find out her own son is dead. Now, it's days later and we don't have a shred of answers. All we have are questions. Questions on questions on questions, and no answers."
Billings police said that information cannot be released because it involves a juvenile.
Rozell's sister Amber Rozell has set up a GoFundMe page as they continue to search for answers.
"I have a really big family, but we don't have much of anything," Rozell said. "I don't know what to do. It's the only thing I can think of that maybe will take away the stress of planning all of the next things we have to figure out now."
