Benjamin Chanes, age 24

Lost to gun violence on March 6, 2022 in Riverside, California.

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  • Nickname:
    11 BenDidThat
    3 Benny
  • Number of children:
    2 O N E
  • Personality:
    8 The best personality so kind
    8 Happy, outgoing, selfless, big hearted
    7 Outgoing, funny, hard working, intelligent
  • Occupation:
    8 Artist, singer
    5 motivational speaker
  • Workplace:
  • Schools attended:
    5 Heliotrope Elementary
    5 Mira Loma Middle
    5 Kaiser High
  • Comments:
    10 Heart of gold, most beautiful contagious smile🤍
    10 kind,loving protector,role model handsome beautiful human being
    9 He would bless families who needed it on Thanksgiving and Christmas!
    10 May have lived a short life but to the fullest!
    10 Such a beautiful human being.
    10 Handsome with the most beautiful smile
    11 So missed </3
    9 Praying for justice <3
    7 HAPPY BIRTHDAY I LOVE YOU ALWAYS<3
    7 LONG LIVE BENDIDTHAT
    7 loving son, would go above and beyond for his loved ones
    5 loved by the world and deeply missed by his family!!!!
    7 missed by his first luv every day every minute <$
    5 Miss you so much my travieso <3
    5 JUSTICE FOR BENNY!! #LLBDT
    3 Thankful for having met someone like you<3
    7 Another holiday without you.. in loving memory BENJAMIN CHANES beloved SON & BROTHER!!!
    5 Miss you sooooo much </3
    7 Merry Christmas munchkin kisses to the sky!!!
    5 #anotheryearwithoutyou
    6 #JUSTICEFORBENJAMIN
    6 always in our thoughts and FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS <3
    2 Merry Christmas handsome another year without you</3
    4 Merry Christmas handsome <3
    4 Holidays were your fav and they are so hard without you</3
    3 Love you always <3
    2 Another year without </3
    4 Another year w/o you I miss you so much!
    4 Missing you always
    5 will never get tired of lighting a candle for you every day REST IN LOVE baby brother
    3 Your beautiful presence will forever be missed.
    4 I love you always <3
    4 I miss you so much mi travieso🥹
    4 Happy Father’s Day handsome 🤍
    5 mom misses you she's broken ever since she lost you </3 #JusticeForBennie
    4 Every morning we wake up and realize you died again. LLB
    3 thinking of you... Wishing you were here this life feels so incomplete without you
    3 I miss you so much I wish heaven had visiting hours❤️‍🩹
    2 Such a contagious soul 🤍
    2 FOREVER REMEMBERED AND LOVED 🪽
    4 Love you cousin 💙 the family misses you so much
    2 ive missed you so much it's felt like missing you is all I am.
    2 like if someone looked inside me, there wouldn't be a skeleton and muscles and blood and nerves..
    2 There'd just be memories of you.. LLMYBROTHER
    2 I love you always 7/13 🤍
    2 Almost your birthday and it’s feeling heavy 💔
    2 Happy heavenly birthday handsome 🤍🪽
    2 Missing you always ❤️‍🩹
    1 had the most purest soul on this earth
    2 I miss you so badly, I hope to see you again. ❤️‍🩹
    5 ~thinking of you today ... need you more than ever 😖
    4 Wish I could hug you and tell you how missed you are ❤️‍🩹
    2 One of a kind, you are truly missed ❤️‍🩹
    2 1328 days without you... Gone but NEVER FORGOTTEN 🤍
    2 Mommas Boy since 1997'
    3 I know you would be out here helping families right now 😭
    3 You have a heart of gold, only few ones like you ❤️‍🩹
    2 Thankful to have had someone like you in my life for many years ❤️‍🩹
    2 To have known you is to love you 🤍
    2 Death took ur body but not our bond i speak to u in the spaces where u still belong
    2 U were stolen from the world but not from me i keep u alive in the silence u left behind
    3 Ur absence is a wound time CANT teach me to forgive ;
    3 i carry ur name where my heartbeat used to live </3 #4EVERBENSWORLD

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