And Latchman's mother also said that she told her other children not to look at his death as something melancholic. Rather, they should celebrate his life, and his memories.
Shannon Latchman, Kyle Latchman's Mom
"It was touching because this, yes, I just made it since everything happen, you know, and so it was kinda like I'm peeling scabs off of an old wound, and I think that me and this will never depart you know and like I said I feel for like mother's and siblings because Kyle was the clown, you know, and they all got, do you know this song Raymond cry like a baby?"
"So that was like he young and he liked…Suck mi titi."
"And they all have their memories so this is what I say to them now, let's keep that alive, so for us it's not a funeral it's not a death or nothing it's a collaboration of life, a celebration more than anything else because I think the old saying says that when they come into the world you should cry, when they leave, you know."
And while she has reconciled herself to the truth of her son's death - we note that the family still does not have a body.
