What Happenedto Bambino Gold??was He Beefing With Somebody

When Felicia Webster's son disappeared from Montgomery in 2017, the nights were the hardest.

"In my mind, when it got dark, we couldn't look for him," Webster said. "I'd be waiting for daybreak to come so we could start searching again. And that pattern is still on me."

Two years later, she still can't sleep at night.

Kendrick Stokes, Webster's son, disappeared on Nov. 5, 2017, alongside Edward Reeves, a well-known rapper known by the stage name Bambino Gold. Stokes, his cousin, worked as an entertainment promoter.

Last seen at a county fair, their disappearance set off a frantic two-week search. But on Nov. 17, a young man in rural Macon County stumbled across a body at dusk.

It was Reeves. Knowing Stokes might be nearby, a sheriff's deputy searched the area through the night before he found him within a few miles of Reeves' location.

Two years later, the case in unsolved. And the idea that no one has been brought to justice for the crime of murdering and dumping the pair's bodies "like animals" continues to sear two mothers daily.

"It shakes your belief system," said Aieda Harris, Reeves' mother. "I don't mind confessing that. It took me some time, but I'm glad we have a big God, he understands. … Some people say I seem angry. And I don't apologize for that. I am angry. When you lose your child in a situation of violence, where a person went out to kill your child, you take it personally."

Both men were shot multiple times. But investigators don't believe Reeves, 29, and Stokes, 30, spent their final moments in the rural brush in which they were discovered.

"I think the bodies were placed," Macon County Sheriff Andre Brunson said last year. "I don't think they were killed in Macon County."

The discovery of the men's bodies brought more questions than answers to the families, who continue to wonder why the popular performers ended up near a rural back road and who might have information they need.

While Webster helped identify her son's body, Harris did not, a decision she says she continues to be "conflicted" by.

"Sometimes it seems so unreal. I didn't get to see my son, they told me I wouldn't want to see him. We had a closed casket," Harris said. "Part of me wishes I had. I didn't get to hold him a last time."

Harris does remember the last time she held him like yesterday, though. Reeves had stopped by the house the day before he disappeared to pick up a pair of boots he'd bought his mother for her birthday in October. They weren't the right size, and he needed to exchange them.

"My son was so tall over me, he put his arms around me and kissed me on top of the head [before he left,]" Harris said.

The families lost contact with the two later that weekend, which was an immediate red flag for the mothers who talked to their sons daily.

"I wish I could talk to him again," Webster said.

The anniversary of their disappearance is painful. Their birthdays are painful. Family holidays are painful. Discussing the stress, heartbreak and fear over the last two years is painful. But Webster and Harris are determined to keep looking for answers.

"Every time I hear a story of a child that goes missing, the agony that you feel, not knowing where your child is ...you hope and pray for the best. That is the most agonizing feeling that a parent can have, to not know where your child is," Harris said.

"We don't want to see another mother or father go through what our family has gone through. Our kids cannot speak for themselves now."

The families say they feel "left in the dark" by state investigators who are handling the case, which they believe lacks a "sense of urgency." But the two are confident the case can be solved and ask anyone with information to come forward, even "if it's just one word." You never know what missing puzzle piece investigators need, Webster said.

"We carried these babies for nine months," Webster said of their unbreakable mother-son bond. "This is very serious to us. We're going to stay on social media, the press, whatever we can do until we can get justice. ... It's not easy, not easy at all. We're trying each and every day. But we're going to be the voice. They're going to continue to hear from us, see us, until somebody comes forward."

Contact Montgomery Advertiser reporter Melissa Brown at 334-240-0132 or mabrown@gannett.com.

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