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Tai Lam was gunned down, and two other teens were wounded, in the shooting.
His mother, Gnoc Lam, began sobbing as she showed photos of the freshman honors student and wrestler at Blair High School.
"I take that photo a year ago," she said, overwhelmed by grief and breaking into tears.
In the family's small, first-floor apartment in Silver Spring, she tries to come to terms with the loss of her youngest son.
"He was a good boy," she sobbed.
Tai's brother Cao was with him as they rode the bus home from the mall about 11 p.m. Saturday night. Another group of teens boarded the bus at the Piney Branch Road stop.
"Them people came on the bus looking for a problem," recalled Cao Lam. "Then they got off the bus, pulled out the gun, started shooting inside -- my little brother got shot in the chest."
Cao said he held his brother in his arms as the life drained out of him.
"I was holding him and he was... -- I could see him, like, fading," said Cao. "I saw the color leave his face... his lips turned white."
Police confirm that two other teens, ages 14 and 15, were also shot. They are expected to survive, Montgomery police reportedly said Monday.
Initial reports indicated that two groups of passengers engaged in a verbal argument, according to Montgomery County police. Investigators say the victims' talk was "innocent."
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"We didn't want to fight them or nothing," said the witness. "They started arguing with us, and then that's when they got off the bus, opened the back door and started shooting."
One 10th grader says she's alive because one of the other shooting victims pushed her to the ground when the shooter drew his gun.
Latino man in his 20s, 5'4" to 5'7". Witnesses said he had a neck tattoo with writing on it.
Friends have created a makeshift memorial for Tai near where he was killed.
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