On their shared birthday, Jayden Perkins and Kameron Miles would every have candle-lit cupcakes whilst family and friends would sing to them.
Born six years aside on Might twenty eighth, the brothers had been bonded through greater than only a date.
Jayden, the older brother, would trick-or-treat with Kameron on Halloween, and taught him spell his identify. For Kameron, Jayden used to be his hero.
However that custom of shared candles and shared recollections got here to a horrific finish final yr, when Jayden, simply 11 years outdated, used to be stabbed to loss of life within their house — killed whilst attempting to offer protection to their mom, Laterria Smith, from a violent ex-boyfriend. 5-year-old Kameron witnessed all of the assault.