'“He never really talked a lot, so when he would say something they would listen,” said Linda Gilmore of Stephon. “Like now he tells them their grades in school are important. And right now my kids are really doing well in school with their grades. So I don’t have to do homework with them. They take care of it. I don’t have a problem with them going to church. Like my mother in law said, if you get the older ones on a good path the younger ones will follow.”