12/27/2025
Even though I’ve been out of the bakery business for a few years many of you got to know me and my boys very well. It is with the heaviest of hearts that I share this post in memory of landin. Him and Carter were my special scrap pack delivery boys and always loved running them out to customers and going on our daily scrap pack deliveries. The more we share Landin’s story the better. I am dedicating my life to his memory and creating change in the justice system to hold people accountable for their actions. There will never be a day where he is not greatly missed and dearly loved 💔🕊️
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As much as this hurts it’s time to share what really happened December 5,2025. Some say it was an accident the news makes it sound that way but the truth is this was no accident. My son Landin (18) was at Sportsmans park with his friend (who is 15 and like his other little brother) they went down there to hang out while they waited for another friend to get off work. They had planned to go out to the mall and hang out at another friends house. Josh showed up to Sportsmans after finding landin’s location on Snapchat. Landin had just moved in with Josh 2 weeks prior. Landin knew that I didn’t want him around Josh nor my other son and his 15 year friend. Josh was bad news from the get go and i knew it. I begged Landin not to be around him and to never have the other boys around him either. My mom heart knew he was not a good person but landin seen the good in everyone even Josh where I don’t believe there is any good.
Josh showed up telling landin he was fired from his job. There was no argument, it wasn’t over a girl, there wasn’t drugs involved, none of those rumors are true. Josh got out of Landin’s car while the other boy with Landin was in the front seat playing a game on his phone. He doesn’t know Josh at all and didn’t want anything to do with him so he wasn’t paying much attention until he heard a gunshot. He immediately called 911, Josh claimed he did chest compressions but that is inaccurate. He begged the 15 year old to lie and say it was someone else. This 15 year old young man held my son in his arms on the phone with 911 while Josh fled the scene. Josh sent Snapchat’s to my 15 year old son begging him to lie for him as well as posting on his Snapchat acting like he didn’t do it and announcing Landin’s passing while I was still at the hospital learning my son had died. Josh has repeatedly terrorized other people with guns and abusive behavior so when I say this is no accident I mean it. My son was 18 years and 33 days old when Josh put a bullet through his heart. His actions have forever changed a young man’s life who held his “older brother” in his arms alone while waiting for first responders to show up. He has taken away my 15 year old son’s brother who he shared his whole life with he robbed him of having a normal life. He took away my baby, robbing us of his future. A part of my soul left this earth with him and I am forever shattered and will never be the same. I grieve with all his friends and the people who loved him. We are broken without him. So when someone says accident, negligence, or any other word that lessens the severity of his actions I want them to think of me and ask themselves if it were my child would I think of it as an accident. No mother should ever say goodbye to their child let alone see a bullet hole in their baby’s chest but here I am and this is our reality. My grief will be raw and out loud to effect change and to show people we’re not just a headline and that he wasn’t some bad kid doing things he shouldn’t, he was an amazing young man who didn’t live a life deserving of this. Sportsmans park was a special place for him. He loved parking down there to watch the sunset, he went there to find calm and peace when he was going through something, and he found comfort in a place I always took him when life was rough.
So there’s the truth while the investigation is still ongoing that is what I know so far. I just ask that people stop spreading rumors, keep Landin’s memory alive through peace and light, and be decent humans while those of us who love him navigate the worst time of our lives 💔🕊️
