A local funeral home and Baptist church have donated their services to lay two toddlers allegedly killed by their mother to rest.
The Willie A. Watkins Funeral Home offered to provide a full funeral service including caskets, embalming and transportation to the cemetery for 2-year-old Ke’Younte Penn and 1-year-old Ja’Karter Williams, Willie Watkins told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Tuesday.
The toddlers were killed Friday, allegedly after their mother, 24-year-old Lamora Williams, placed them in an oven and turned it on, an arrest warrant states.
Watkins said God spoke to him and told him to bless the boys’ father, Jameel Penn.
“God told me to do this,” Watkins said. “God spoke to me first and said, ‘You need to do this service free of charge.’”
Penn is now caring for his 3-year-old son, Jameel, who was in the Oakland City West End apartment on Howell Place at the time of his brothers’ deaths.
A GoFundMe account has been created to raise money for ongoing expenses.
“I lost my 2 young boys to violence and I want to be a difference maker in someone else's life to prevent a child being hurt,” Penn wrote in the fundraising campaign.
The funeral service is also being donated, by the West Hunter Street Baptist Church at 1040 Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard in Atlanta.
Service is free and open to the public at 11 a.m. Saturday, the church confirmed.
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