Oklahoman
In moments between confusion over why her 15-year-old boy was armed with a gun inside a south Oklahoma City store and anger toward the police officers who shot him to death, Cameo Holland, otherwise stoic as she speaks, breaks down in tears when she remembers the color of her dead son’s eyes.
“He had hazel eyes,” she said. “Of all my kids, he was the only one that looked like me. Bluish-green and in the very center they had some brown. And a few yellow spots.”
The last time Holland saw Stavian Rodriguez, one of her four children, a funeral home presented him the best way it could, but the grieving mother couldn’t help but notice little marks around one of his eyes, and the strange touch of his young body, which was packed in parts to fill bullet wounds.