PERU - A State Representative and Chairman of the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus is asking the Peru Police Department to turn over Jelani Day's case to the
it still unknown. joining me now is the mother of jelani day, carmen bolden day and the attorney haley bessner. we re so sorry for your loss. i know the last two months they have to be excruciating for you. and tuesday had to be a painful day as well. what was that like for you? indescribable what that was like for me. i just had to lower into the ground one of the best things that god has blessed me with. so i can t tell you what that was like. i can tell you this, if you have children, it is something i wouldn t wish upon anyone. i do have children. i can t imagine it. i just can t imagine what you ve gone through after all this time. and now you re calling for an
taken away from me. one of them was robbed. i was robbed of one of them. and so now i need to know why, why somebody thought it was a good idea to take my son away from me. we re so sorry. i just can t say it enough. i m so sorry for your loss. and also for the lack of answers that you re getting here. haley, if i can ask you, carmen said that you re hearing from local authorities. what are they telling you? yeah, i am. i have been in communication with several of the officers. the investigation is ongoing. there is new developments coming every day. but like carmen said, it has been 59 days now. and we re still asking questions every day. and we don t have any answers. we asked more and more questions
and seems like every question that we ask leads to three more questions. well, i hope at some point go ahead, carmen. i want to interject. we it is ongoing. there s new developments there s not new developments every day. there is new developments, but th there s not new developments daily. so i can t agree with what haley is saying when she says there is new developments daily. however, they are finding they have just recently gave her some new information, but we still don t have answers. we still haven t had what we re looking for. so i need them to come in. i need the fbi to come in and do what bloomington and lasalle have not done for that. that is to find the answers. i hope you get the answers, carmen. carmen bolden day, haley
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