Tavares Javon Carter, Jr., 8 months, died Jan. 2, 2007 at St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach. He was born in Stuart and lived in Hobe Sound.
Survivors include his mother, Chandell Janee Wiley of Hobe Sound; father, Tavares Javon Carter, Sr. of Stuart; sister, Taniya Carter of Stuart; maternal grandparents, Della and Jonathan Wiley of Hobe Sound and Wilfred Wiley, Jr. of Georgia; paternal grandparents, Lasander Wheeler of Orlando and Linda and Curtis Carter, Sr. of Stuart; great-grandparents, Delois McClain of Hobe Sound, Virginia Ferguson of Stuart, Mary Wiley of Port St. Lucie and Wilfred Wiley, Sr. of Jensen Beach.
He was preceded in death by his great-grandmother, Marie Carter Jacob.
SERVICES: Visitation will be from 3-7 p.m. Jan. 12 at Stone Brothers Funeral Home in Fort Pierce. A service will be at 3 p.m. Jan. 13 at St. Paul AME Church, Stuart. Burial will follow in Washington Cemetery, Jensen Beach.
STUART — In flip flops, high heels and bedroom slippers, they shuffled through the streets of East Stuart and toward a birthday without a birthday boy. Although unidentified gunmen killed Tavares Javon Carter Jr. four months ago, more than 80 friends and family members held a walk and candlelight vigil in his honor Tuesday evening, the day he would have celebrated his first birthday."This community is hurting over a senseless death, but we can grow from it by putting love back into the community," said Steve Cooper, a speaker at the walk's endpoint: Martin Luther King Jr. Park. Inside the park's fenced lawn, tears accompanied dripping candles and hymns, but smiles emerged for cake and choruses of "Happy Birthday." Tavares' mother, Chandell Wiley of Hobe Sound, blew the cake's single candle out."You only turn one once, and he wasn't even here to see it," said Jasmine Cooper, Tavares' cousin.Cooper and her mother, Michelle Jacob, organized the vigil and party to both celebrate Tavares' short life and to raise awareness about senseless violence. On Jan. 1, Tavares and Wiley, 18, were visiting friends outside a Riviera Beach neighborhood when gunmen in a maroon Lincoln Navigator opened fire, shooting six people. Wiley was injured in her left knee and right hand. Tavares, seated in a child seat in a car, was shot in the back and died hours later at St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach.But not even a passing freight train could silence the gathering Tuesday, and a D.J. nudged up the volume of Sounds of Blackness' "A Place in My Heart" until the speakers crackled and drowned out the squealing wheels.As the sky darkened, the sun replaced by a near-full moon, the crowd released 50 blue and 50 white balloons in remembrance of "Baby-T" and what would have been his first year.
Survivors include his mother, Chandell Janee Wiley of Hobe Sound; father, Tavares Javon Carter, Sr. of Stuart; sister, Taniya Carter of Stuart; maternal grandparents, Della and Jonathan Wiley of Hobe Sound and Wilfred Wiley, Jr. of Georgia; paternal grandparents, Lasander Wheeler of Orlando and Linda and Curtis Carter, Sr. of Stuart; great-grandparents, Delois McClain of Hobe Sound, Virginia Ferguson of Stuart, Mary Wiley of Port St. Lucie and Wilfred Wiley, Sr. of Jensen Beach.
He was preceded in death by his great-grandmother, Marie Carter Jacob.
SERVICES: Visitation will be from 3-7 p.m. Jan. 12 at Stone Brothers Funeral Home in Fort Pierce. A service will be at 3 p.m. Jan. 13 at St. Paul AME Church, Stuart. Burial will follow in Washington Cemetery, Jensen Beach.
STUART — In flip flops, high heels and bedroom slippers, they shuffled through the streets of East Stuart and toward a birthday without a birthday boy. Although unidentified gunmen killed Tavares Javon Carter Jr. four months ago, more than 80 friends and family members held a walk and candlelight vigil in his honor Tuesday evening, the day he would have celebrated his first birthday."This community is hurting over a senseless death, but we can grow from it by putting love back into the community," said Steve Cooper, a speaker at the walk's endpoint: Martin Luther King Jr. Park. Inside the park's fenced lawn, tears accompanied dripping candles and hymns, but smiles emerged for cake and choruses of "Happy Birthday." Tavares' mother, Chandell Wiley of Hobe Sound, blew the cake's single candle out."You only turn one once, and he wasn't even here to see it," said Jasmine Cooper, Tavares' cousin.Cooper and her mother, Michelle Jacob, organized the vigil and party to both celebrate Tavares' short life and to raise awareness about senseless violence. On Jan. 1, Tavares and Wiley, 18, were visiting friends outside a Riviera Beach neighborhood when gunmen in a maroon Lincoln Navigator opened fire, shooting six people. Wiley was injured in her left knee and right hand. Tavares, seated in a child seat in a car, was shot in the back and died hours later at St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach.But not even a passing freight train could silence the gathering Tuesday, and a D.J. nudged up the volume of Sounds of Blackness' "A Place in My Heart" until the speakers crackled and drowned out the squealing wheels.As the sky darkened, the sun replaced by a near-full moon, the crowd released 50 blue and 50 white balloons in remembrance of "Baby-T" and what would have been his first year.
Tavares Javon Carter, Jr., 8 months, died Jan. 2, 2007 at St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach. He was born in Stuart and lived in Hobe Sound.
Survivors include his mother, Chandell Janee Wiley of Hobe Sound; father, Tavares Javon Carter, Sr. of Stuart; sister, Taniya Carter of Stuart; maternal grandparents, Della and Jonathan Wiley of Hobe Sound and Wilfred Wiley, Jr. of Georgia; paternal grandparents, Lasander Wheeler of Orlando and Linda and Curtis Carter, Sr. of Stuart; great-grandparents, Delois McClain of Hobe Sound, Virginia Ferguson of Stuart, Mary Wiley of Port St. Lucie and Wilfred Wiley, Sr. of Jensen Beach.
He was preceded in death by his great-grandmother, Marie Carter Jacob.
SERVICES: Visitation will be from 3-7 p.m. Jan. 12 at Stone Brothers Funeral Home in Fort Pierce. A service will be at 3 p.m. Jan. 13 at St. Paul AME Church, Stuart. Burial will follow in Washington Cemetery, Jensen Beach.
STUART — In flip flops, high heels and bedroom slippers, they shuffled through the streets of East Stuart and toward a birthday without a birthday boy. Although unidentified gunmen killed Tavares Javon Carter Jr. four months ago, more than 80 friends and family members held a walk and candlelight vigil in his honor Tuesday evening, the day he would have celebrated his first birthday."This community is hurting over a senseless death, but we can grow from it by putting love back into the community," said Steve Cooper, a speaker at the walk's endpoint: Martin Luther King Jr. Park. Inside the park's fenced lawn, tears accompanied dripping candles and hymns, but smiles emerged for cake and choruses of "Happy Birthday." Tavares' mother, Chandell Wiley of Hobe Sound, blew the cake's single candle out."You only turn one once, and he wasn't even here to see it," said Jasmine Cooper, Tavares' cousin.Cooper and her mother, Michelle Jacob, organized the vigil and party to both celebrate Tavares' short life and to raise awareness about senseless violence. On Jan. 1, Tavares and Wiley, 18, were visiting friends outside a Riviera Beach neighborhood when gunmen in a maroon Lincoln Navigator opened fire, shooting six people. Wiley was injured in her left knee and right hand. Tavares, seated in a child seat in a car, was shot in the back and died hours later at St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach.But not even a passing freight train could silence the gathering Tuesday, and a D.J. nudged up the volume of Sounds of Blackness' "A Place in My Heart" until the speakers crackled and drowned out the squealing wheels.As the sky darkened, the sun replaced by a near-full moon, the crowd released 50 blue and 50 white balloons in remembrance of "Baby-T" and what would have been his first year.
Survivors include his mother, Chandell Janee Wiley of Hobe Sound; father, Tavares Javon Carter, Sr. of Stuart; sister, Taniya Carter of Stuart; maternal grandparents, Della and Jonathan Wiley of Hobe Sound and Wilfred Wiley, Jr. of Georgia; paternal grandparents, Lasander Wheeler of Orlando and Linda and Curtis Carter, Sr. of Stuart; great-grandparents, Delois McClain of Hobe Sound, Virginia Ferguson of Stuart, Mary Wiley of Port St. Lucie and Wilfred Wiley, Sr. of Jensen Beach.
He was preceded in death by his great-grandmother, Marie Carter Jacob.
SERVICES: Visitation will be from 3-7 p.m. Jan. 12 at Stone Brothers Funeral Home in Fort Pierce. A service will be at 3 p.m. Jan. 13 at St. Paul AME Church, Stuart. Burial will follow in Washington Cemetery, Jensen Beach.
STUART — In flip flops, high heels and bedroom slippers, they shuffled through the streets of East Stuart and toward a birthday without a birthday boy. Although unidentified gunmen killed Tavares Javon Carter Jr. four months ago, more than 80 friends and family members held a walk and candlelight vigil in his honor Tuesday evening, the day he would have celebrated his first birthday."This community is hurting over a senseless death, but we can grow from it by putting love back into the community," said Steve Cooper, a speaker at the walk's endpoint: Martin Luther King Jr. Park. Inside the park's fenced lawn, tears accompanied dripping candles and hymns, but smiles emerged for cake and choruses of "Happy Birthday." Tavares' mother, Chandell Wiley of Hobe Sound, blew the cake's single candle out."You only turn one once, and he wasn't even here to see it," said Jasmine Cooper, Tavares' cousin.Cooper and her mother, Michelle Jacob, organized the vigil and party to both celebrate Tavares' short life and to raise awareness about senseless violence. On Jan. 1, Tavares and Wiley, 18, were visiting friends outside a Riviera Beach neighborhood when gunmen in a maroon Lincoln Navigator opened fire, shooting six people. Wiley was injured in her left knee and right hand. Tavares, seated in a child seat in a car, was shot in the back and died hours later at St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach.But not even a passing freight train could silence the gathering Tuesday, and a D.J. nudged up the volume of Sounds of Blackness' "A Place in My Heart" until the speakers crackled and drowned out the squealing wheels.As the sky darkened, the sun replaced by a near-full moon, the crowd released 50 blue and 50 white balloons in remembrance of "Baby-T" and what would have been his first year.
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