Two boys chased each other in tight circles in the fenced front yard of their grandmother’s home Friday.
Men sat or stood quietly on the porch, while inside, women sat at the dining room table with their faces down.
The boys, ages 9 and 4, didn’t fully understand what had happened the day before. Brenda Young said she tried to remain steady when her youngest grandson asked her, “Granny, why you crying?”
Young’s first thought was of the boys after she got the call Thursday that her 29-year-old daughter, Meco Siler, had been killed.
“Granny’s going to take care of them. Granny’s always going to take care of them,” she said. Siler also had a 14-year-old daughter who lives with her father, Young said.