I don’t even know how to write this. I believe I’m still considered a top user of this sub from when I was very active. But until Tuesday I wasn’t really a “bromo” anymore. Things in my life had been better. Ups and downs but things were good.
On Tuesday at 11:56pm I heard 6 gunshots outside of my house. I called my partner who was sleeping upstairs to check on our sleeping boys and hung up the phone. I immediately started to call my eldest son who would be coming home from work soon. He didn’t answer his phone. I called about 100 times. Then the police showed up. They wouldn’t let me out of my house. I called my son’s bio-Dad to drive up to my son’s work and make sure he was still there. I put the pieces together and knew my baby had been shot. And they wouldn’t tell us anything so I knew the worst of the worst had happened.
At about 2 a.m. the detective confirmed it was my son and he had been murdered. It is believed to be an attempted robbery, but they ran after they shot my baby.
My kid was my world. I had him when I was 19. He was only 22. My father passed away on Dec 2. My baby helped pay for my Dad’s final arrangements and was his pallbearer on the 19th.
My son loved his friends and family fiercely. He took care of everyone. He was the most beautiful person in the world, inside and out. He was talented. Strong. Brilliant. Always thinking of others. He was funny and I loved his laugh. He was a hard worker and took his job seriously. He had no vice.
I don’t have words to describe what an enormous tragedy this loss is to not only me but the entire world. The world would have been perfect if only everyone had someone like him in their lives.
I know we don’t share pictures in this sub but there’s an Imgur post in my comment history.
Edit: Thank you everyone for your love for my baby and me. Please know I am reading every word. I am just broken.
Edit 2: This is probably grief and delirious thinking from days without sleep and food. But all of the news articles keep calling him a man and it’s making me furious. He was a man but he was my baby first and always.
Edit 3: Alex was immensely creative. One of the things he loved to do was cartography. Here’s a picture of a world he was creating.
On Tuesday at 11:56pm I heard 6 gunshots outside of my house. I called my partner who was sleeping upstairs to check on our sleeping boys and hung up the phone. I immediately started to call my eldest son who would be coming home from work soon. He didn’t answer his phone. I called about 100 times. Then the police showed up. They wouldn’t let me out of my house. I called my son’s bio-Dad to drive up to my son’s work and make sure he was still there. I put the pieces together and knew my baby had been shot. And they wouldn’t tell us anything so I knew the worst of the worst had happened.
At about 2 a.m. the detective confirmed it was my son and he had been murdered. It is believed to be an attempted robbery, but they ran after they shot my baby.
My kid was my world. I had him when I was 19. He was only 22. My father passed away on Dec 2. My baby helped pay for my Dad’s final arrangements and was his pallbearer on the 19th.
My son loved his friends and family fiercely. He took care of everyone. He was the most beautiful person in the world, inside and out. He was talented. Strong. Brilliant. Always thinking of others. He was funny and I loved his laugh. He was a hard worker and took his job seriously. He had no vice.
I don’t have words to describe what an enormous tragedy this loss is to not only me but the entire world. The world would have been perfect if only everyone had someone like him in their lives.
I know we don’t share pictures in this sub but there’s an Imgur post in my comment history.
Edit: Thank you everyone for your love for my baby and me. Please know I am reading every word. I am just broken.
Edit 2: This is probably grief and delirious thinking from days without sleep and food. But all of the news articles keep calling him a man and it’s making me furious. He was a man but he was my baby first and always.
Edit 3: Alex was immensely creative. One of the things he loved to do was cartography. Here’s a picture of a world he was creating.
