Cedrick Levell Herdle, age 20

Lost to gun violence on February 12, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois.

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    1 Fun loving caring
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    1 West town academy
  • Comments:
    1 Especially a motherfucker can’t tell me shitttt this pain is real
    1 And I wish a motherfucker would stop acting like Cedrick wasn’t my son
    1 Like I don’t suppose to hurt 😢 just because you didn’t lose a child I did
    1 And I don’t wish that shitttt on nobody
    1 My Cedrick was special he was everything and I didn’t even get a chance to tell my son
    1 I love him and give him a big hug 🤗 and a kiss 😘😭
    1 My son birthday is coming up he would’ve been 21 years old
    1 It’s gonna be the first birthday without him it’s gonna be hard for me because last year
    1 He was here for his birthday I just wanna do something special
    1 I don’t want no negative people’s around me let me celebrate my son birthday in peace
    1 If I’m crying 😭 don’t say why you crying mf you know why I’m crying
    1 Until you Lost a child then you can tell me I know how you feel
    1 Cedrick wasn’t no any body he was my son I will never ever stop loving him
    1 It was so many things that I wanted to do with all of my kids
    1 I was gonna teach my son’s how to drive in the summer
    1 Cedrick wanted to Buy him a car for his birthday and have a party
    1 He said ma for my birthday will you help me get a car for my birthday I said yeah Cedrick
    1 He said ok ma love you and I said it back to him
    1 I remember when he was going to high school
    1 He would wake up every morning getting ready for school
    1 He loves to walk he walk to school every day and get there
    1 Before school starts lol I don’t care how the weather is outside he always wanted to walk
    1 I have a lot of Memories of my son good and bad
    1 Every one that knows my son they would tell you no matter
    1 How he feeling you couldn’t tell because he always had a smile on his face
    1 I want my son back 😔😔😔😭😭😭
    1 His birthday is Tuesday and I just don’t know how I’m going to do this hurt is broken
    1 Cedrick please come back too me why did you leave me like this 😭😭😭😭😭
    1 I still can’t believe that my son is gone 😩😩😩😩😩please give me the strength
    1 It’s like don’t no one care about my son not the police 👮‍♀️ no damn body
    1 And it hurts soooooooooo bad everyday why me and my family
    1 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
    1 How I’m going to have a party without my son every thing is fuck up my fucking life
    1 You mf just why did you do that too him you have so much heat in your heart
    1 I don’t want to do his party because he not here with us and it’s just too hard but I’m gonna try
    1 I know he would want that
    1 Do anybody know how it feels for a mother to lose her child 👶🏽 😭😭😭😭😭
    1 The pain is unbearable I want to talk with my son again see his face see him smile again
    1 Cedrick Herdle was my son and I loved him the good and the bad
    1 This shitttt hurts 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
    1 Tomorrow is the big day baby and you’re mama going to celebrate you
    1 I love you so much I just wish you were here 😔😔😔😭😭😭
    1 Happy heavenly 21 st birthday son
    1 Love you so much R.I.P Cedrick
    1 It was a very emotional day for me yesterday but I got through it
    1 I love you Cedrick r.i.p my big baby 😘😘😘😘❤️❤️❤️😭😭😭
    1 Man you really change are life’s when you took my son
    1 Away from us now my daughter always thinking something
    1 Is going to happen to me that the man is going to kill me
    1 I think about him every day all day still can’t believe this 😩😩😩😩
    1 So much has change I don’t trust no one people’s don’t care
    1 I never thought that I’m going through this
    1 Don’t nobody feel my pain and I don’t think they care
    1 😭😭😭😭😭😭I think about you everyday Cedrick it still hurts please somebody help me
    1 Justice for Cedrick 😔😔😔😭😭😭🕊🕊🕊😇😇😇
    1 I still call his phone expecting him to pick up but it keeps going to the voicemail 😭😭😭😭
    1 I lay in my bed looking in my phone at the text message we sent each other
    1 It brought tears 😭 to my eyes still can’t believe
    1 I just miss him so much 😭😭😭😭😭😭
    1 I will never get over this my precious son😭😭😭😭😭
    1 He was my son and shouldn’t nobody fuck with him
    1 I don’t care what was going on at the time he was my son 😭😭😭😭
    1 That man shouldn’t took my son life 😭😭😭😭
    1 This is the first 4th of July with out my son 😭😭😭
    1 I can’t pop fireworks 💥 with his brother and sister 😭😭😭
    1 It’s different because he isn’t here with us
    1 A member from are family is gone and he isn’t coming back it hurts so bad
    1 I love you Cedrick always and forever 😭😭😭💔💔💔
    1 I will always and forever miss you son
    2 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
    1 Omg I just want my son back 😭😭😭😭💔💔💔
    1 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭why I can’t wake up this is a nightmare
    1 💔💔💔💔😭😭😭😭😭😔😔😔
    1 I see people’s kick you when you’re down 😭😭😭
    1 I try to hold back my tears 😭 every day 😭😔💔
    1 I lose my son I had surgery 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
    1 All this year when you go through something you just have to get through it by yourself
    1 Because don’t nobody care and people’s don’t know the pain you feel everyday
    1 From the outside looking in you can never understand
    1 And from the inside looking out you can never explain 😭😭😭
    1 Missing you is the hardest things to deal with every day 😭😭😭😭
    1 What you was thinking when you decided to end my son life 😭😭😭😭
    1 How could you look someone in there face in shoot them in the head 😭😭😭😭
    1 My son was only twenty years old and you just treated him like he wasn’t shitttt
    2 You beat up my son then you shot him in his head😭😭😭😭why I want to know
    1 You didn’t even call the Ambulance but you called somebody and told them what you did
    1 To my son how could you take my son life and you got kids of your own
    1 How you look yourself in the mirror knowing that you took my son life
    1 My son didn’t deserve to die like that he died a horrible DEATH
    1 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
    1 I just can’t stop thinking about my son I love you Cedrick herdle
    1 You will always be in my heart 😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔
    1 Thinking of you Cedrick 😩😩😩😩😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔
    1 This man don’t know what he did when he took my son life
    1 My other son is crying because his big brother is not here
    1 To help him celebrate his 18th birthday 😔😔😔😔😭😭😭
    1 This bitch ass N**** could tell his son happy 21st birthday but you took my son
    1 Away from me you celebrated the 4th of July with your kids and I didn’t have my son
    1 Because you’re bitch ass killed him 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😭😭😭😭
    1 You outside partying where you killed my son at you bitch ass N**** 😭😭😭😭😭
    1 You all happy with your family and I’m hurting because you killed my son
    1 😭😭😭😭
    1 I miss you .I miss your voice .I miss your smile
    1 I miss your smell I miss your hugs I miss your jokes
    1 I miss how you made me feel I miss everything about you Cedrick
    1 I just wish I had one more chance to say I love you Cedrick
    1 I miss you son 😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔
    1 He could’ve saved my son life if he would’ve just called the Police 👮‍♀️ and 🚑
    1 He didn’t have no one to help him no one too stay there with him
    1 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
    1 😭😭😭😭😭😭
    1 Happy Labor Day son today is your grandma birthday it’s hard for me because
    1 You is not here this time to celebrate with me 😭😭😭😭😭
    1 I miss you so much 😭😭😭😭😭😭
    1 Marcus you didn’t have to kill my son why I just wanna know why
    2 💔💔💔💔💔💔
    1 Why did that man have to kill my brother he didnt do nothing i hate him and i miss my brother
    1 now that he took my brother my mom is in pain everyday all day
    1 And I don’t want to see her in pain
    1 Life without my brother I really hate it 😭😭😭
    1 My big brother always call me we talk on the phone
    1 Now I can’t talk to him anymore 😭😭😭😭😭
    1 The man who killed Cedrick his name is
    1 Marcus Clemons 😭😭😭😭😭😭
    1 Happy Halloween 🎃 my son I love in miss you so much
    1 I wish you was here I know you like
    1 Halloween.
    1 You always in my heart😔😔😭😭😭😘😘❤️❤️❤️
    1 Happy thanksgiving Cedrick I love you always I wish you were here
    1 It’s not the same without you missing you like crazy 😔😔😔😭😭😭
    1 You always ask me ma is you going to cook for thanksgiving
    1 And I say yeah Cedrick and you say I’m finna Max
    1 You loved thanksgiving and Christmas
    1 11/27/20 thanksgiving without you 😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔
    1 Happy heavenly Christmas Eve son
    1 It’s not the same without you 😭😭😭😭💔💔💔
    1 12/24/20
    1 😭😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
    1 Merry Christmas in heaven son Love You always
    1 💔💔💔💔💔😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
    1 12/25/20
    1 My Angle in the sky each day I look to heaven
    1 Each day I call your name.Each day it feels so different it hasn’t been the same
    1 Each day I always question I often wonder why 😔
    1 You had to go away from me 😩😩😩😭😭😭😭😭
    1 My angle 😇in the sky 😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔
    1 I keep you in my memories since we been apart 😔😭🙏🏾
    1 And I always have a part of you locked safely in my heart 💔😭😭😭😭😩😩😩
    1 I love you Cedrick always in forever rest in heaven until we meet again love you 😘😘😘😘😘
    1 😭😭😭😭😭
    1 I am so thankful for every moment that I had with you my heart hurts so bad 😭😭😭
    1 This is not no mfn happy new year’s for me
    1 Not without you son 😔😔😔😔😭😭😭😭💔💔💔🕊🕊🕊🕊
    1 12/31/20
    1 Tomorrow is your one year Anniversary 😔😔😔😔😭😭😭
    1 It still doesn’t seem like you been gone from me a year
    1 😔😔😔😔😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔
    1 Every day I still wake up thinking that you going to come in my room
    1 Saying good morning ma 😭😭😭😭😩😩😩
    1 Today makes one year you been gone
    1 My handsome son I still can’t believe you gone
    1 I keep praying in asking god to wake me up from this nightmare
    1 Every day I think about what happened to you
    1 So matter what I do it still won’t take this pain away
    1 I miss you so much Cedrick
    1 I miss your smile your voice and Evan when you get mad
    1 My heart aches that you not hear with us
    1 Happy Easter in heaven my son
    1 Easter 2021 I love and miss you so much my son
    1 💔💔💔😔😔😔😭😭😭😇😇😇🕊🕊🕊
    1 I love you Lil cuz 😘
    1 Hey oh are truly missed and forever loved happy birthday t😘😇🥰❤️🖤🎈🎉
    1 I’m missing you today and always my son
    1 Today is the 4th of July and you not here with us
    1 Celebrating you was suppose to be here asking me is we going over Ann house
    1 You love the 4th of July so I’m feeling some type of way because I don’t have all of my kids
    1 On this day and every day see people’s don’t know what
    1 Any one go’s through when they take a love one from them exactly your child
    1 But anyway happy heavenly 4th of July my handsome son
    1 Rest in heaven 😇😇😇😇💔💔💔💔
    1 I love you always and forever my handsome son
    1 Tomorrow is thanksgiving and you still not here with us
    1 It’s hurts so bad when the holidays come around
    1 All the pain inside of me knowing that I will never see you again
    1 No matter what I do I can’t stop thinking about what happened how you felt
    1 Happy Thanksgiving my son I wish you were here with us and we all love and miss you
    1 Today is the day that I lost you 😭😭😭
    1 I miss you every day son 💔💔💔💔
    1 I’m at work sitting here thinking about you
    1 I miss you so very much 😭😭😭😭

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