Caleb Refuge, age 27

Lost to gun violence on December 11, 2021 in Marrero, Louisiana.

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  • Nickname:
    16 Mickey Mike
    13 Uncle Caleb
    9 Michael
    8 Cake Man
    2 Rico
    2 Rico Chop
  • Number of children:
    7 He wanted so badly to be a father. That dream was stolen from him 💔
  • Personality:
    18 Joyful and Loving
    18 a smile that could light up a room and heart that did not know haters and anger
    12 La goofy just friendly to any and everyone. A stolen gem!
    12 selfless and giving
    13 Family was first in his life. He had a big welcoming heart ❤️
  • Occupation:
    9 Welder
  • Workplace:
    1 Travel-contract welder
  • Schools attended:
    7 La Port High/Marques Academy
  • Comments:
    18 Caleb is a stolen treasure from not only his family but all those who were gifted to know him
    9 My sweet baby brother was stolen from our family… how do we move on from here
    10 My nephew Caleb taken unexpectedly will aways be in my heart gone to soon
    11 He had a big heart and always gave everyone a chance. He loved family and welcomed all
    6 I think about you all day and dream of you every night. This is agonizing 💔
    8 My baby brother and GodSon. My love for you will never end. 💔Life hurts without you 💔
    11 I never stop thinking about you. My heart is forever broken baby brother 🥀
    9 I love you forever. I like you for always; as long as I’m living my baby you’ll be.🌹💔
    7 I’m so proud of the love you shared and the man you were continuing to become I miss you 😢
    4 I don’t want this to be real! The pain is never ending! Love and miss you much 😔
    8 We’re sorry that you had to go but you still live on in our hearts
    5 I miss you a lot I hope you happy🥺 your always my favorite
    6 Love you and you are everybody favorite
    8 😡🥺😡🥺😡🥺😡🥺😡🥺
    7 I miss you more than words can say. I pray for joyful memories to This painful emptiness
    5 The pain of loss is only eased my the joy of your memory ❤️
    4 Our lives forever changed when you left. It’s agony not having you but God needed you home 🧡❤️💛
    3 Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. – Matthew 5:4
    3 I love you baby brother. This pain is so hard. Know always you are loved.
    4 Because you are a beautiful soul and ultimately trust/believe in promised salvation; you live on👼🏼
    5 It's been 30 days of agony. Feels like yesterday I lost a peice of my heart. 💔
    2 Oh baby brother… time keeps passing but I’m frozen. I can’t accept this reality
    4 Dear Caleb the yesterday of your parting, will forever be our today….
    4 We will honor and carry you though our todays….
    3 First by demonstrating our love of family.. ,
    3 Than by our willingness to help others with kindness and forgiveness 🌹💔🌹❤️
    4 Forever in my heart and always in my mind! My baby brother 🥀
    3 God is the True authority and the day of Truth is promised to us all
    3 We know who and what manner of man live on in our hearts🌹💔❤️‍🩹❤️
    5 Caleb: a young man who Truly loves his family and sincerely cared about others
    3 I’m upset that a person I love has been reduced to photos and memories
    5 Caleb was physically stolen from us, but we have assurance that his spirit lives on 🌹❤️‍🩹❤️
    3 I love you so much. You were stolen but your spirit lives on.
    5 Michael… Not one moment I won’t carry you in my heart. I love you without measure👑
    3 My baby brother Caleb ❤️ I miss you more every day. Wish you were here 🥀
    5 Caleb Michael Refuge… Your LOVE lives on; to help us live and love 💗 🌹❤️‍🩹❤️
    3 I don’t get to hear you say “Happy Birthday Shayka” 😩💔
    9 There is an emptiness and a pain that won’t go away. I love you Caleb Michael
    4 Each day I press on to adjust 💔🌹❤️‍🩹
    4 To change the painful void of your absence 💔🌹🥺
    4 To a vault of your Beloved memories, driven by your ambition 💔🌹😢
    3 I never thought I would have to live life without Caleb. His killer stole from us!
    5 They can take the future that we’ll never know. But they can never have yesterday
    2 If I could start over tonight, if we could give this just more try 💔😔
    3 😭😢😭😞🌹💔❤️‍🩹😔
    4 The fact that our beloved Caleb is gone into his eternal life, is hard ….
    4 The way he left (was taken), makes this fact almost impossible to adjust this life👍🏽🌹💔❤️‍🩹
    3 😠😢💔🌹❤️‍🩹
    3 Brother I love you so much! I will forever be sad/hurt that my Caleb Michael is gone
    4 However he is born again! Rejoice for the Lord our God is with Caleb ❤️
    4 Yes! He is reborn and in the presence of glory! Hallelujah ❤️😇
    3 We must all adjust and live your legacy of Love, forgiveness and compassion 😢🌹💔❤️‍🩹
    5 I still have moments of this reality and it hurts so bad. I love you baby I love you for eternity ❤️
    5 Lester killed our entire family when he stole your life. This reality is so hard to live with.
    4 I love and miss you always and forever 😘
    3 🌹💔I look forward to our reunion, till then I’ll miss you and do my best adjust 🌹❤️‍🩹❤️
    3 Lester took the time I had left to spend with my baby brother. How can I forgive the unforgivable!
    2 My child who remains: You
    5 Forgive the unforgivable by honoring Caleb’s request of forgiveness for promised Reunion🥀🌹
    5 👀The article isn’t accurate. This isn’t what happened. I’m sorry for you young man.👀
    4 I still catch myself thinking I can pick up the phone. I miss you baby brother 😣
    2 I miss you more each day 😔🥀I cling to the memories of your love, joy and amazing smile 🌹❤️‍🩹
    6 ☀️ You’re still my sunshine my special sunshine you still make me happy everyday☀️ ILuvU
    4 I miss you immensely! This pain is indescribable. I can’t heal from this
    4 You are and will forever be my “Fragile Heart” (Yolanda Adams)🥀💔🙏🌹❤️‍🩹
    5 As I cried again tonight I smelled the sweetest smell. I love you to baby brother 😘
    3 I Love You beyond this life…🥀❤️‍🩹
    5 I can’t stop thinking of you! My heart cries for you! I love you brother ❤️
    4 I am honored to be your big sis. I wish we had more time. I love you fat boy
    4 Everything reminds me of you. You are all around me 🥀
    4 Your life will live on through your mother!
    3 You are my fragile heart; I can’t give up this fight ❤️‍🩹
    3 Caleb: My fragile heart, I will not give up this fight ❤️‍🩹🌹❤️
    4 I can’t stop thinking of you! 🥀😔 I wanted more time but you were taken in an instant
    4 I’m so sorry this happened to you brother! You didn’t deserve to be betrayed this way…
    4 😘I Love you I love you I love you baby brother 😘 That will never stop
    5 😇 The physical world lost a REAL Angel 💎 the spiritual world gained a worrier 🔱
    4 My heart cries for you! I love you so much! Till we meet again 😢
    4 I love you!💕 forever our baby brother 😘
    4 Another day my heart breaks again! I miss you so much!
    7 Lester, you will burn in hell for this and so will the two females that set him up.
    3 I’m hurting. You play on repeat in my mind. I’m shattered brother.
    5 I want to tell myself this isn’t true! You’re just off working. Then I remember 12/14/21 💔
    4 I still cry every day brother. We miss you here! Our parents miss their baby boy 💔
    5 This is such a hard reality to live with. Your siblings are living with sorrow without you.
    5 ❤️Saying I love you forever will never be enough❤️I love you for eternity❤️
    5 It’s been almost three months since you were taken 😭 it hurts!
    8 I miss you everyday and night, all day and night🥀❤️‍🩹🌹
    6 Today makes 3 months since your life was stolen. Ours haven’t been the same.
    4 If I could go backwards in time, would you help me go back 🎶
    5 I miss you more every day! Time can never heal this tragic loss
    4 😞For a second I forgot and picked up my cell to call you 💔
    7 My heart breaks over and over again 💔
    7 Last night and today feel tougher than normal 💔 I’ll never be 100% happy again
    7 These past few days have been so rough…. Your life was stolen and so was mine.
    5 No amount of time can heal this loss. I’m forever broken baby brother 💔
    4 3 We must all adjust and live your legacy of Love, forgiveness…..
    4 …understanding, compassion and acceptance for the greater Glory 🥀❤️‍🩹🌹❤️
    4 There’s no remedy for memories, your face is like a melody, it won’t leave my head 🎵
    3 💔 If I could turn back the clock I'd spend every second keeping you safe💔
    3 we will always love you
    4 Dear uncle I love you I will miss you I think of you all the time I am sorry if I did anything wrong
    5 And I will always love you no matter what❤️🥺
    5 Still hurts the same! Missing you baby brother 05/11/22
    5 Hope and love last beyond the end baby brother 🧡💛💝
    3 I miss you! 🌹❤️‍🩹
    5 How do I live without the one I love! I have so much to say but you’re so far away.
    2 12/11/21 @ 7:11 pm my entire life changed….
    2 By the hands of Lester Simmons and his wicked mother and friends 😡
    4 All MURDERERS will come…
    3 To Justice! If not in this life in their life to come❤️‍🩹
    2 It’s 6/26/22… I hate seeing your here bro.
    8 When all is gone it can’t be regained, we can’t seem to shelter the pain inside…
    8 7/20/22 “I keep holding on to you but I can’t bring you back to life” 💔
    2 8/20/22 just sitting here thinking about you… wishing you survived this unforgivable act.
    3 I just left your final resting place…
    5 It feels that I miss you more each day…
    6 I know now my heart will never heal…
    6 I’ll keep doing one of the life lessons I thought all of you…
    7 I’ll keep doing the best that I can, come what may 🥀🥀💔❤️‍🩹
    6 I want to say so much but it won’t be enough to express my missing you and love.
    3 ❤️I hear you❤️I feel you❤️Got your message❤️#SpiritWalker
    1 9/02/22 light years above, time seems to wait, promise to see you again ❤️🧡💛
    3 ❤️Thanks for the heads up❤️I love you without boundaries❤️9/7/22 SpiritWalker
    8 9/15/22 not a day goes by that I don’t think of you! I love you beyond forever baby brother
    4 I love you; I miss you. Caleb you are forever Dearly Loved🌹❤️‍🩹
    2 The closer your BDay gets the more my 💔. I❤️u.
    3 10/17/22 Happy Birthday baby brother 💕 I love you always!
    3 Happy Birthday baby💔❤️‍🩹🥀🌹
    6 it was hard not being able to tell you happy birthday yesterday. F U lester
    5 10/28/22 life is strange without you… I want to go backwards in time
    8 💔💔💔I miss you Immensely
    6 You still a fat boy to me lol “jiggle my fat” 🤣
    4 11/24/22 Happy Thanksgiving Fatty! We miss you!
    5 11/27/22 I can’t believe it’s been a year since I heard your voice
    4 If I would have known 11/27/21 would be our last conversation….
    4 12/09/22 the anniversary of the worst day of my life is almost here 😢
    6 It’s been one very difficult year without you
    5 I love you for eternity 12/11
    3 12/19/22 I’ll have a blue Christmas without you 💔😢
    1 Merry Christmas baby…let our Lord;
    2 Immanuel know I thank him for being our Savior
    6 Still in disbelief and replying it over and over in my head
    2 I drink almost every day since you left. I miss you
    3 You’re the best thing I never knew I needed
    5 💗Not a day I don’t miss U. Know that U R always perfect to me❤️
    8 My precious Caleb you live forever within the cracks of my broken heat ❤️‍🩹
    2 Happy Valentine 💝 ❤️‍🩹
    9 Forever LOVED; greatly MISSED ❤️‍🩹🥀
    4 “No one compares to you but there’s no you except in my dreams tonight”
    8 I miss you more than I can say❤️‍🩹🥀
    2 I really hope your killer understands the agony we’re in having to live without you.
    1 This is still so unbelievable. I never thought I would have to let you fly😣
    1 🕯️I know I haven’t come to your page in a while💔not a second I don’t carry you in my heart🕯️
    1 😔Happy Birthday my love 😣
    1 it will forever hurt
    1 There’s just no healing from this unforgivable tragedy
    1 Life hasn’t been the same since you were killed. Your life gone for nothing…

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