A local mother wants answers, some she knows she'll never fully get.

Barb Shively says her son was found dead nearly two years ago in a local park, and the coroner determined his death a suicide, but that's never sat well with Shively because an autopsy was never done.

Now, she's getting the attention of Ohio lawmakers to do something about it.

"You never know when the moment is coming up. You think of him one minute, I'm laughing and the next I'm crying because something reminded me of Justin," said mother, Barb Shively.

May 29, 2006, changed the Shively family forever when their youngest son, Justin Shively, was found dead at Yorkville park. Barb Shively says she was hysterical and couldn't believe what she was being told. Shively spoke with her son the day before a bullet took his life. "I told him I loved him, every time I hang up with the kids I tell them and he told me it back and that was the last time," said Shively.

Barb's account of that night after she and Justin hung up the phone is sketchy. She said she knows he went to a graduation party, then to a local bar sometime later.

Police reports confirm an argument between two girls and Justin Shively and that Justin told an officer, "something might go down at the park," and at 2 the next morning, Justin Shively was found dead in the park.

Police say it was fatal gunshot wound to the chest. Just before it happened, someone called 9-1-1 and it was that call, in part, that Barb Shively claims the Jefferson County coroner used to rule her son's cause of death a suicide.

Police reports indicate Justin Shively was shot one time in the chest, but there's was no autopsy to back up his death to be a suicide.

"They said why they didn't do an autopsy, it would be $2,500 and blood work would be $500 and it would cost to take Justin's body to Cleveland," said Barb Shively. Barb Shively claimed Jefferson County coroner John Metcalf told her that information.

In Ohio, it's up to coroners like Metcalf to determine when an autopsy should be performed. Through his assistent, Metcalf declined to comment with News9 on how he determines when an autopsy is done.

Now Barb Shively is getting the backing of Ohio Rep. John Domenick who's now working to get a bill passed called Justin's Law.

"We think it's a bill that needs to be addressed by the state and legislators," said Domenick.

Under this proposed state law, at the family's request and expense, county coroners in Ohio would have to perform blood work.

"I think all coroners should jump on this and help the families they serve," said Domenick.

Barb Shively just wants to know other families will have the choice she says she didn't. "It may be too late for me to know what happened to Justin now," said Shively, "That's why I want the bill passed."

Domenick told NEWS9 the proposal would first have to go to the Ohio Judicial Committee for review.

Shelby Zarotney, NEWS9