At 19, Gabriel Butler was standing at a crossroads in his life, trying to support a young family. He wasn’t the type to disappear.
He had temporarily moved back in with his mother, Kennetta McFadden, in northeast Oklahoma City after he and his high school sweetheart had a child of their own in January.
McFadden understood what it was like to be a young adult and a new parent. When McFadden was 25, she gave birth to Butler. At that time she’d already had three children…