Blayne Alexander

From like a mother's perspective.

Yes, this was an incredibly close family.

I mean, talking, texting every day throughout the day, which...

Again, college kids, you don't typically see that with their parents, right?

And so for on her birthday of all days, he's like radio silent.

She immediately said, oh, no, no, no, no, this isn't right.

In fact, she and her husband, Mr. Jimmy, they were driving down to Biloxi to kind of just go on a little vacation.

And she said, no, turn the car around.

We need to go to Oxford.

We need to go check on him because something is wrong when she kept calling him and, you know, and when his location was off.

She just knew immediately.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, I think that this, there were so many aspects of this that you could look at this story and just have a bunch of stereotypes, right?

Like, this is the South.

These are very, I mean, very, you know, God-fearing religious family.

Dad's a minister.

All of these many things.

And again, like, you know, being African-American, like a lot of times like this, you know, when you're looking at, especially when it comes to religion in the Black community, like not typically and historically very accepting of

of the LGBTQ community.