‘Hi ma.’
Two little words... But they meant the world to Theola Benson.
She lives in Florida, and she'd talk with her son Kevin over the phone all the time... And he'd always start off by saying 'hi ma'
"He always liked to make people happy and he never stayed mad with nobody,” Theola said. “He never hurt anybody."
She'd talked to him a couple days before his death.
"Bye ma, I love you. Those were his last words to me," Theola said.
He was a man with the life-long dream of becoming a teacher. He even just started a new job. Until he was shot right here in his own apartment.
"I can't even face the fact that my baby is gone,” Theola said. “I keep waiting for him to drive up in the car. I keep waiting for the phone to ring and hear him say 'hi ma'.”
"I miss him every day, I think about him all the time," Alvin Benson said.
Alvin is Kevin's big brother. He says Kevin could always find ways to make people laugh.
"He knew that there were better days coming and he lived for those better days,” Alvin said. “He'd completed a job interview. Getting ready to start a new job and everything. And he had a lot that he was thankful for."
Like his three children. This is a photo of him and his daughter. The Benson family is reaching out to the community, hoping for answers to Kevin's death.
She says she doesn't hate the person who murdered her son... This is her message:
"Please give yourself up. Give the family some closure. We need it."
Lansing Township Police don't have any leads at this time.
If you have any information, give them a call.
