The Impact on Young Lives

Each year on May 28th, Jayden Perkins and Kameron Miles celebrated their common birthday with cupcakes adorned with candles, surrounded by the voices of their family and friends.

Though there was a six-year age gap, their birth dates forged a strong connection between them.

Jayden, the elder, guided Kameron through the fun of Halloween and imparted knowledge such as how to spell his own name. Kameron looked up to Jayden as a role model and sibling idol.

Tragically, these shared moments abruptly ceased last year. Jayden, at the tender age of 11, lost his life in a brutal act of violence while defending their mother, Laterria Smith. He was killed during a domestic assault by a former boyfriend of their mother. Kameron, just five years old, was an eyewitness to the terror.