Corey Johnson, aged 21, was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Jovanni Sierra, of 13 years, during a sleepover organized by the victim’s best friend, Dane Banecroft, a reason that has led to the medium Wesh 2 to start a conversation with the mother of the minor who was stabbed to death.
“I look at his photos a lot and I only see how big his smile was. Jovanni was so sweet and beautiful. He was always hugging and smiling”, that was how Karen Sierra Vélez remembered her son.
Almost four years after the Jovanni’s departure from Florida, her mother still wonders what happened that night, if she woke up screaming or if she died in her sleep; the police have only been able to tell the family that the boy was killed at the hands of Corey Johnson who could not contain his rage after the jokes that were made that night about his new Muslim faith.
Records indicate that Johnson carried out the attacks when everyone had gone to sleep and began with Sierra whom he stabbed and slit her throat. The noise of the attack led Mrs. Elaine Simon, mother of the boy who organized the sleepover, to see what was going on, when she entered the room she was immediately attacked by the then teenager from 16 years old, who took refuge in a closet until the police arrived.
Despite the pain that invades her son’s death, the mother of Hispanic origin was surprised to point out that over the years forgave Corey Johnson for what he did.