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Over again, my heart breaks for you and i appreciate you sharing your story with us today and your mission. can you tell me a little bit about greyson? >> gosh, he was just the cutest, silliest, funniest, and smartest four-year-old that i have ever known in my life. everyone that knew him just loved his infectious laugh, and he was everyone's best friend in school and camp. and he just had the best personality that just made him shine. >> how did you find out about his death, alison? >> well, he wasn't in school for two days, and i basically was searching for him, and i tried to get wellness c...

Son grayson was shot and killed by his dad who then killed himself. just hours before the shooting, she petitioned the court to remove him from his father's care after she says his father sent her threatening messages. that wasn't the first time she tried to get the legal system to intervene, but it never happened. now she's on a mission to pass greyson's law. it would make it easier to remove a child if a parent is threatening or abusing the parent. we are joined now. alison, thank you so much for joining us. how are you doing? >> thank you for having me. >> i'm out of bed today. i guess that...

Judge cannot take action in removing a child from the home even though some of the threats are egregious and actions are egregious. in alison's case, her former husband was putting trackers on her car and all sorts of other issues. it's called coercive control. it's something we're trying to expand the definition of domestic violence to include some of these more humiliating, threatening kind of -- the step before violence type of violence. and unfortunately in florida, and most states, the judges don't have the ability -- they don't have the mechanism in which they're able to remove a child f...

Wrong. i tried to get the domestic injunction the day prior to his timesharing, so i knew his father was unstable, and i found out when -- after two days of not being able to locate him, finally getting a lock smith to break the door down. >> alison did everything that a mother would do. she saw the signs. she knew her son was vulnerable, was in danger. she tried to seek help. why couldn't she get the help that she needed? >> thank you for having me. i hope you can hear me okay. i'm in a strange location, but there's just some holes in the law, and many states have this same issue where threat...