ORANGEBURG, S.C., Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Hundreds of people attended a funeral in South Carolina Friday for two young brothers allegedly killed by their mother and placed in a river.
Deacon Nathaniel Rhodes of St. Paul Baptist Church, where the funeral was held, told those gathered to mourn the deaths of toddlers Devean and Ja'van Duley of Orangeburg they should "look out for one another," The State newspaper in Columbia reported.
"There was a time when I was a little boy, these things wouldn't happen," he said. "We're got to go back to the old times. We can't leave everything to God. We have to walk that Christian life together".
With the boys' small white coffins at the front of the church, the Rev. Charcey N. Priester told the family and others: "It's now time to say goodnight to Devean and Ja'van -- Goodnight from the land of the dying. Good morning to the land of the living" in heaven. UPI
