For several days, this Largo community wanted nothing more than to bring little Jordan Belliveau home.
As a crowd gathered near the police station, one woman could be heard preaching words of faith saying, “We’re going to pray and ask God to give us strength in this situation.”
But today, the tragic news of the 2-year-old’s death struck hard. Many in the group chanted “Justice for Jordan.”
Understandably, when Jordan’s grandmother heard the unbelievable news, she almost went limp as her friends and family consoled her near where the little boy’s body was found in the woods.
Outside the 8:45 pm news conference at Largo police Department headquarters, we met a young lady who says she went to charter school with Jordan’s mother, Charisse Stinson.
“She was out of school when she got pregnant. Then she disappeared for a while and then brought the baby back. He was really friendly with everybody. You know how kids are. But he stayed close to her.
He didn’t wander off or anything. She wasn’t mean to him,” she said.
And like many others, she, too, will go to bed tonight with more questions than answers.
With tears in her eyes, she told us, “At the end of the day, that’s a baby, you know, and I really pray for his dad’s family.”
