She blinks back tears at the mention of his name. Johnson says she was close to her nephew. That resistance piques the suspicion of Stewart’s aunt Andrea Johnson. “You’re going to end up dead, or in jail, and he was so looking forward to moving.”īut when it comes to talking about who may have killed her boyfriend, Morrison shuts down, saying she doesn’t feel “comfortable.” “We used to always talk about our future, and he would always tell me there’s nothing in Chicago,” says Morrison. She says Stewart told her he couldn’t go back to school and said he wanted to take classes online instead, something she reluctantly agreed to.ĭespite the increasing instability, school absences and repeated moves, Stewart’s girlfriend LaDorothy Morrison insists Stewart was trying to hang on and make something work. Green says the school told her that his mother could not be reached. In late October 2012, Green says Stewart’s school, Bronzeville Scholastic Institute, contacted her because he had missed 42 days of school, almost the entire semester. When that family moved from their South Side Woodlawn neighborhood to the West Side in August of 2012, Stewart moved with them. When Stewart’s relationship with his mother grew strained, he moved in with his girlfriend, LaDorothy Morrison, and her family. Green says the 16-year-old was seeking more freedom, and she didn’t approve of the move. In May of 2012, he decided to move out of Green’s house to live with his mother. Stewart tried several times to get away from the dangers he feared would catch up with him. I’m like, ‘Boy, who want you? Nobody thinking about you.’” “I didn’t take him serious because we’re talking about Trell, who is silly, lanky, just silly. “He told me he has ‘enemies’ and that I wouldn’t understand,” Green recounts. Stewart warned her that he was in trouble. Green says her grandson- who came to live with her when he was 10- actually liked to clean and go to bed early, and he had no problem taking care of his younger relatives or chipping in for groceries when needed.īut Green remembers a conversation she had with her grandson about a year before he was killed. Stewart was a good kid, who stayed out of trouble, says Sheila Green, his grandmother he wasn’t in jail like other relatives, she adds. They remember him as an easy-going, silly but responsible young man. Rodney Stewart’s family and longtime friends say they never expected his life to end this way.
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