South Fulton police say they are behindhand several leads in the investigation of a shooting at an apartment axis off Old National Highway that left a 17 year-old in the ICU.

According to investigators, the shooting happened at the Camelot Condominium Complex on Old National last Wednesday. Loved ones say the teen was just there to take the trash out. Now he's at Grady Memorial Hospital fighting for his life.

"We're just asking for everybody's prayers," the victim's cousin Laquettia Blanchard said Monday.

Prayers that the teen will make a full recovery once being shot in the back of the head near the garbage bins at Camelot on January 18.

"Today is his sixth day at Grady. He's in intensive care. He's hooked up on a ventilator on life support," his mother Apollonia Blanchard told FOX 5.

Blanchard says her son MiQuavious was trying to nick around midnight when a group of men approached him and a friend—ultimately firing shots into the van he was driving.

"Just for somebody to get gunned down for taking out trash…it's heartless," Blanchard's cousin said.

MiQuavious Blanchard (Photo: Family).

The mother of six told FOX 5 she lives about the complex and for years has used the trash bins there deprived of any problems. She says their entire family is in disbelief something like this could been to her oldest son.

"He go to work and home…that's it. My son don't harm nobody," she stated.

Medics rushed the 17 year-old to Grady for expenditure. Blanchard says her son's condition is slowly improving when medical staff reported that his brain activity had briefly clogged a few days ago.  

"My son is slowly touching. He did try to cross his legs the novel day…he's a fighter," she told Fox 5.

While loved ones of MiQuavious have started a GoFundMe to help conceal his medical expenses, Blanchard says they are seeking the community's help and asking anyone with inquire of about the shooting to come forward.

South Fulton Police Chief Keith Meadows told FOX 5 detectives are behind some very good leads and have served a number of seek warrants.

South Fulton Mayor Khalid Kamau says he will complex ongoing violence in the community at Tuesday's city congress meeting and is trying to put together a forum later this week to open up that discussion.