It's impossible to understand the pain a family experiences when one of their own, bright and full of life, is murdered and suddenly ripped from their lives.
And days after Yulee resident Michelle Hainley was found dead in a Kingsland, Ga. hotel room Feb. 26, her mother, Linda Johnson, vowed she would not rest until she had answers.
On April 16, she let me know via email that's meant she's had to be patient.
"I still don't have any answers about Michelle," she wrote.
One thing the family can do is take care of her son, Keelan.
Proceeds from a party, called "Da 'Get Loose' & 'It's Whateva' Party, starting at 10 p.m. Saturday, April 19, at Kraft Ten Acres Athletic Club, 961023 Buccanner Trail, will benefit Keelan. Cover charge is $5.
The party will feature several rap bands from Jacksonville and Kingsland, Ga., and several DJs.
It gives Hainley's friends a chance to honor Hainley, whom they nicknamed "Baby Mama."
"We gonna mourn ya til we join ya," they wrote on a flyer advertising the party. For more information, call the athletic club at 261-3185.
