Cory Green stood over his nephew’s coffin and asked the hundreds of mourners gathered to touch one another and repeat after him.
“If
I am not a part of the solution, then I am part of the problem,” Green
said, the audience reciting his words. “Because I am my brother’s
keeper.”
Family members and friends remembered Green’s nephew
Bobby Tillman on Saturday as a smiling, happy peacemaker and vowed not
to let the 18-year-old’s death be in vain. Tillman died last Sunday
after a random attack at a house party. Investigators say he was
stomped, kicked and punched to death.
About 200 people gathered
to remember Tillman at Siloam Church International in College Park,
south of Atlanta, consoling each other in the pews as they were told to
honor Tillman’s life and example by standing up for themselves and
others.
