CANTON ‒ Given the chance to speak to his father’s killer, Keith D. Greggs II talked about how the 22 stab wounds inflicted by Willis R. Kennedy changed the lives of his family members.
“Those cuts and slashes were felt across the entire fabric of my family’s being and existence,” he said Monday in Stark County Common Pleas Court. “Not only did you take away my dad’s many opportunities from him forever, but you have taken many opportunities from me and my family.
“He has taken away from me the ability to have a dad, the ability to ask for fatherly advice while raising my two boys,” he told Judge Natalie R. Haupt. “He has taken away my brother’s chance at growing up with his dad around to show him how be a man and help him stay out of trouble. He has taken my sons’ ability to know their grandfather. He has taken away my grandmother’s protection and financial stability.”
Greggs said that when Kennedy killed his father Keith D. Greggs, he took away the prospect of his grandmother moving from a public housing apartment into a house bought with his father’s veterans’ benefits.