The family of 3-year-old Ke’Torrius “K.J.” Starkes Jr. is remembering the little boy as a “joyful,” “brilliant” “happy boy who loved life, who would light up any room that he would enter into.”
The toddler died after he was trapped inside a hot car while in the custody of a worker contracted by the Alabama Department of Human Resources, the state’s child protective services agency, according to the Jefferson County Medical Examiner’s Office and the state Department of Human Resources. The Birmingham Police Department is investigating the death.
K.J. had been left inside a car parked outside a home in Birmingham for several hours during the middle of the day on Tuesday, the Jefferson County Medical Examiner’s Office said.
If the state actually invested in things besides private prisons and locking people up for smoking a joint it wouldn’t be such a miserable backwards shithole but if the dirt roads leading to the redneck’s trailers out in the sticks were paved they wouldn’t have their trucks covered in mud every time they went into town and that would infringe on their cultural identity as tribal swamp people.