Davion Ervin was a quiet man and a naturally good student.
That’s what makes his brutal murder last Tuesday so uncalled for, according to Davion’s mother, Rotunda Jordan.
“At 18, he hadn’t even lived yet,” Jordan says. “He hadn’t even had a chance to pursue anything. This was the year he was going to graduate high school, but he didn’t get a chance to do that.”
Davion might have been a quiet kid, she says, but everyone loved him because he was fun-loving and charming.
“He was raised only by me,” Jordan says. “In school, he always had perfect attendance. He was a naturally good student. Even if he didn’t have time to study for a test, he’d do well on it anyway.”
She invested in her son, Davion, and enrolled him in a mentoring program called Concerned Christian Men. There, she says, he performed in oratorical speech contests and was passionate about winning the first-place prize.
He memorized and performed speeches by Obama and King, Jordan says. “I have a video of his speeches on video. One of them was Dr. King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech.”
Jordan even taught her son how to barbecue, something she hasn’t taught Davion’s three other siblings.
Davion was killed the morning of May 15 in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. About 11 a.m., he was shot multiple times near Chicago and St. Louis Avenues. Chicago Police detectives were investigating the homicide.
Davion lived in the Gresham neighborhood.
“It hurts me real bad the way he was brutally murdered,” Jordan said. “That was really uncalled for. That really hurts.”
Jordan says she’s trying to bear with it, and says she’s been talking with mothers who also lost sons to gun violence.
“I’m just thinking of the things he’d want me to do,” Jordan says. “That’s what’s keeping me going right now.”
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