Dozens of people gathered and released balloons Thursday night in memory of Samuel Sterling. Sterling was the 25-year-old man hit and killed by an unmarked police cruiser in a Kentwood parking lot exactly one year ago.
Friends and supporters all gathered alongside family of Sterling, who are still coping and struggling with not just his death and they way it happened but with the system tasked with bringing justice.
“When (Brian Keely) gets convicted it’ll still never bring me closure because it won’t bring my baby back,” said Andrica Cage, Sterling’s mother. “No justice in this world is going to bring my child back. I would give up everything to have my baby back.”…