Demontay Matthews, age 25

Lost to gun violence on February 23, 2025 in Washington, District of Columbia.

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  • Nickname:
    76 NuNu
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  • Personality:
    45 Funny , Loving , Sweetheart , Playful ❤️🫶🏾🥺
    44 Great dad❤️
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  • Comments:
    69 Babyyy❤️❤️ me and dada man love and miss you so much !! #Forevermybaby❤️
    60 Demontay I miss you so much I search up your name everyday thinking they solved the case 💔😔😔😔
    58 Me and your daughter miss you and love you forever we rl had plans baby I’m so fucked up
    67 #FOREVERMYBABY❤️❤️❤️ I LOVE YOUUUUU
    67 Dada man miss and love you❤️ always on my mind forever in our hearts❤️ I love you!!!! #forevermybaby
    66 I miss you nunu & not a day go by without me thinking about you 🩷 Big Sis
    66 To my lost niece & her mom please contact me via text or call me @ 571-336-7851
    65 Hey baby🥹, I’m thinking about you… me and K love and miss you so much !!❤️❤️❤️❤️ #forevermybaby
    62 Goodmorning baby❤️❤️❤️ we love and miss you so much !! #forevermybaby❤️
    59 I miss you😔, I love you so much!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ #Forevermybaby❤️
    58 Goodmorning my king❤️, me and K love and miss you lotssssss!!!!! #Forevermybaby❤️
    58 Red ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️’s for my baby , we got you! We love you❤️❤️ #Forevermybaby❤️
    57 Goodmorning Demontay guess what your favorite rapper
    60 I think about you everyday just wish it was all a dream i love you sooo much🥺🩷🩷
    56 K love and miss you ❤️❤️ forever in our hearts
    49 I think about you all day 💔 I’m so hurt man I still can’t wrap
    49 My head around this they may forget you but I won’t
    46 Goodnight Demontay I’m really going thru it tn 💔😔🥹
    45 Im so in my feelings 🥹🥹🥹 I pray you we get justice
    45 Like my heart hurts as I type I don’t think I’ll be ever ready to let go
    48 I love you ❤️ #Forevermybaby❤️❤️❤️❤️
    48 Not a day go by I don’t think about you, we miss and love you so much❤️ #Forevermybaby❤️
    47 Goodmorning Demontay ❤️❤️ I love u 🫶🏾
    45 Goodmorning Demontay we miss you so much
    47 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🫶🏾🥹
    47 Missing you sooo much handsome🥺🥺😘
    47 Goodmorning I miss you ❤️❤️❤️❤️
    42 You know what is I’m here everyday 🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾
    44 Goodmorning babe just stopping by to tell you I love and miss you so much#Forevermybaby❤️
    46 WE ALL GRIEVING DIFFERENTLY PLEASE RESPECT EACH OTHER #BIG SIS
    43 Goodmorning Demontay ❤️🫶🏾 we miss you so muchhh
    42 was thinking about you heavy today i miss and i love you sooo much🥹💗💗
    43 Goodmorning missing you❤️❤️
    41 The way you be having me crying to youngboy songs is crazyy lol get you rest i love you🥹🥹😘
    42 We miss you so much ❤️❤️❤️
    42 This summer was going be yours boy 🫶🏾😭❤️ missing you and that smile 💔
    43 I swear everyday feel like a dream but ik u with us every step of the way 🥺🥺❤️🩷
    42 Goodmorning baby we miss and love you ❤️ #forevermybaby❤️
    41 We miss you 🫶🏾🫶🏾
    42 Red ❤️❤️❤️❤️s for MY BABYYY WE LOVE YOU NUUU❤️❤️❤️
    41 Goodmorning 🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾 we miss you 🩷
    41 Missing you 🫶🏾🫶🏾
    41 We love and miss you soooo much demontay 😞 #forevermybaby❤️
    42 ❤️❤️❤️ missing you everyday 🫶🏾
    42 I been so busy working but I miss you so much ❤️❤️❤️🩷
    41 Happy 4th nu we miss you 🫶🏾❤️❤️
    42 auntie love and miss you nunu
    42 never forgotten love auntie Vicky and the family
    41 your memories are always with us never forgotten
    40 Hey nu we miss you so much ❤️❤️🫶🏾😩
    45 Boy i miss u so much every nba song i think of you ❤️🫵🏾 Im hurting so bad inside 😞
    45 Forever yours sincerely🥺🥺🥺
    39 🥺 hey it’s me again I miss you so much man ❤️❤️❤️ there’s not a day that i don’t think about you !
    38 Love 4 lifeee 😩❤️🥺
    38 Good morning baby❤️ k and I love you
    38 I love you babyyyy❤️❤️❤️❤️ #forevermybaby❤️❤️
    37 I stayed strong at 🥺 baby K party , when I look at him I see you I miss you nunu # Big Sis
    36 I wear my necklace around my neck everyday❤️🥺
    36 #Forevermybaby❤️❤️
    36 ❤️❤️🫶🏾 miss you so much
    35 ❤️❤️❤️ I miss you so much Demontay 🥺
    34 Missing you so much 🥺
    31 🥺🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾
    28 Love 4 lifeee I’ll never forget u 🥺🫶🏾
    26 I miss you soooo much i needed you the most
    25 Just one of those nights 🥺🥺
    23 I miss you my nunnie Mann 💙 this shit eating me up. Happy birthday 🎉
    23 ❤️❤️❤️🫶🏾 forever in my heart
    21 Sitting in my feelings reminiscing bout the pass🥺🥺
    20 It’s about to be a whole new year and your death still feels like yesterday i miss you sooo much🥺
    19 I love you forever 🥺😘
    18 Happy new years handsome sitting here crying lol imy sooo much
    18 Demontay … my hear won’t accept this baby omg 💔 I love you I love you I love you
    19 I was posed to see you the day before 💔 I love you baby sooooo much I’m so sorry 😩💔
    19 13yrs of knowing & loving you baby 💔 I’ll NEVER get over you , I can’t stop cryinggg 🫩
    18 you really broke my heartttttttt I stg 💔 it’s no way you gone baby omg
    18 Demontay I spent MONTHS looking for you baby & I found out you gone? 💔💔💔
    18 you up there w/ our baby boy now 🕊️ I knew he woulda looked JUST like you babyboy 💔😩
    18 missing you EXTRA hard today today 💔 kiss our baby in heaven for me 🥹🕊️
    18 I miss you so much nu
    18 Everything hitting me ever harder now but I gotta stay strong I love you so much 🥹🥹🥹
    18 I’m so upset im not even the same
    18 demontay I love youu sooo much ♥️ I rl can’t believe you gone boo wtf 💔💔
    18 I wake up thinkin bout you & gts thinking bout you tay 🫩💔🤞🏾
    18 Just one of those mornings where I’m missing you the most I feel sick w out ya 🥹🥹🥹💔💔💔
    20 Your death date coming around damn it’s almost we a year and I’m still hurt 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
    19 Our kid has your whole face which hurts me even more 💔🥹🥹🥹
    18 you were my ♥️ in human form , I been crying allll day fa days young I miss youuu 😩💔
    18 all I’m left w/ is messages & videos w/ us 🥺💔.. I rl LOVE you tay w/ everything in me .
    19 to lose you & then lose our son right after hit different 💔 I’m BROKEN beyond words .
    18 I’m so glad God let me experience a soul as pure as yours ❤️🥺
    18 I wish I would’ve said yes when u said to see you the day before 💔 my BIGGEST regret young!
    18 I really gotta live the rest of my life knowin you gon I’m sick aff w/o you baby 💔💔
    18 3am & I’m missing you like shit down here papa 💔 I love you babyboy
    19 I cry EVERYDAY over losing you & our son 💔😩 I wish things were different … I miss you baby 🥺
    16 Nu Nu I miss you very much and I love you continue to sword your wings Auntie Vic
    17 I’m thinking bout you tay , always ❤️ I love & miss youu 🥺
    14 Always missed, Never forgotten Love auntie Vic and family 🤎
    14 ❤️❤️❤️ love 4 life
    14 It’s hard I know they want me to move on but I ain’t ready to let go of my nigha 😫❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹😢
    14 Since 2017 my dawg , my bd , my heart I love you 4 ever 😫❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹
    14 I’d give anything to hear your voice rn tay 💔 .. it rl hurt soo bad losing you I swear 🥺
    14 everyday you on my mind baby 🥺 everyday .. I love u forever & ever ♾️♥️
    14 Been so emotional since February came all can think about is the last time i saw you😢
    14 Not a day goes by that your not on my mind i love you handsome🥹💓
    13 I hope you & our babyboy doing ok up there 🥹 , yk I’m missin yall like sh* tay 💔..
    13 I loved you since I was 12 & you were 13 🥹♥️ I HATE this happened to you bby I rlly do 💔
    13 thinkin bout ya smile when I tld u I was preg w/ bby boy & now yall BOTH gone 💔
    13 I swear a piece of me died w/ yall 💔.. sleepless nights & all , I miss you young ❤️😩!!
    12 I miss you …. can’t believe it’s about to be a whole year wtf I’m hurttt like a mf 💔🫩
    12 2/23 🥹💔 worst day of my life
    12 I talked to you for the last time a year ago today & you left not even 24hrs later 💔
    12 my heart really won’t let me accept that you’re gone forever tay , Ian been right SINCE 💔🫩
    12 I love you forever & ever bby ♾️❤️ .. life w/o you hit different, I miss you soo much moe 🥺
    11 a whole year today 💔💔 demontay you RL crushing me everyday young 💔😩
    11 It’s forever you ♾️❤️🥺 .. I love you like shit bby continue resting 💔
    11 my luva & my bff 💔🥺.. I love you more than life papa , I jst wish I seen you one last time 💔💔
    12 Forever on mind, always in my heart i love you infinity 2/23/25💔
    12 2/22/25 last day i seen you and i regret not hugging you tighter🥺
    11 you popped up in my dreams today 🥹 .. missing you hellaaaa
    10 Sending paper airplanes to the moon praying they get to you🥺
    11 Love you 🫶🏾❤️🥲
    10 I miss you gangstaaa 🥲❤️
    10 🫶🏾🥺 never forgotten love 4 lifeee❤️
    9 Just a day where I’m missing you the most 🥺💔 I’m still in denial
    7 lord knows how much I miss u & wanna talk to u rn 💔💔
    6 I miss you sooo sooo much tay 💔💔 wish you were here so I can tell you how much I love you 🥺
    4 Missing you my guy ❤️🫶🏾
    3 Im miss you & our baby boy sum serious these days 🥺 continue resting my sweet angels ❤️✝️
    3 I love yall forever & ever 🥺♾️❤️
    1 I miss you soooo much these words ain’t doing enough😩

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