Justice For Tammy’s Sons

My name is Kristy Johnson and I am the sister of Anthony Dees & Jerome Stewart Jr. What happened in the court room  in Youngstown,Ohio is a shock to us all and I can promise you my mother Elizabeth Tammy Pledger didn’t raise us to respond to anger the way you seen yesterday . Since my mothers murder our little family of 5 has been broken in ways I’m sure you can only imagine because instead of it being 5 of us it’s only now 4. Our mom was our best friend . Our mom was all we had and now we are left to feel like we have nothing for the rest of our lives. Our mother was our world and not a lot of people can say they feel that way about their mom.

I don’t even know what I can try to say to help you feel and understand what my siblings and I go through on a daily basis because I wouldn’t wish it on anyone . The type of hurt that we feel makes you not want to get it out of bed . Some days you just want to give up. It has you crying all throughout the day because all you think about is what could we have  done to save her . How could we have found a way to protect her so that she could still be with us today. To have these emotions run through your head every single day for two years is mentally tiring and exhausting. So to have the person that took her life make it his all to stare you down and grin as if what he did was okay made my brothers snap. My brothers aren’t like that. We aren’t bad people. They aren’t bad people. We’re just a broken family that’s hurt & we are going to be hurt and broken for the rest of our lives. 


So with that being said my family and myself want to make sure that anything they may need financially is taken care of. Anything and everything is appreciated. The support from the community has been amazing.