And at that moment I was like, wow, we’re going to make it. "One morning I woke up and I heard Muriel faintly singing," says Jim, "My ears perked up and she was singing to Natalia, baby Natalia, Amazing Grace. But In 2012, their prayers were answered with the birth of Natalia Grace. Having a baby was not guaranteed or easy. Muriel Sitton says, “I felt the Lord had placed in our hearts that we needed to keep moving and that it wasn’t over for us.that chapter wasn’t over.” Jim Sitton says, "After the murders, all the joy and laughter and little girl giggles left us a cold empty house.”ĭuring their months and years of grief, one thing was clear.they wanted to be parents again. Sometimes it feels like yesterday other times it feels like it's been one long marathon." Muriel Sitton says, “She would have been 16 going on 17. We checked in on them, 10 years after the tragedy. Their killer now sits in a prison cell for the rest of his life.įor the Sitton's, they were sentenced to a lifetime without their precious daughter. Also dead, Muriel's mother, Raymonde Joseph, and cousins. Makayla was Jim and Muriel Sitton's only child. Thanksgiving, 10 years ago.Īn uninvited guest shows up at a cousin's house for dinner.īefore the evening ended, Paul Merhige pulled out a gun, killed his two sisters, his aunt and then walked to the bedroom of sleeping 6-year- old, Makayla Sitton, and shot her in her bed.
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