The 14-year-old teen, who was recently by his younger cousin, 12, looked cheery and joyful in birthday photos posted to Instagram a few years prior. tragically perished in June 2nd after his cousin mistakenly shot through his heart with an illegal sawed-off shotgun earlier this week, leaving a desolate mental scar. Friends and family members left heartfelt comments under the teen's photos wishing him farewell.
In most of the photos, Jasai smiles and flaunts money that he seemingly got for his birthday. One shows him bashfully smiling into the camera while holding a birthday cake with lit candles. “My boy was so beautiful,’’ Tiffany Grant lamented just days after her son was killed in the freak accident.
Tiffany said her son was a creative visionary who drew up comic characters and loved playing basketball. Jasai continually broke his glasses during games, so his mother, after multiple attempts, finally convinced him to switch to contacts. Tiffany told the she wasn't ready to put her son's things away—his clothes still lay on his bed waiting to be put away and all his books and other belongings are still where the teen left them.
“Saturday, he just got his contacts,’’ the grief-stricken mom said. “He was excited. The pictures you see where he didn’t have his glasses, he couldn’t see.
" "If the world needs to know anything about my son, I don’t want the last thing to be that he was shot dead. It’s beside that, it’s who he was. And I’m going to tell th.