Anlage said her son, 20-year-old Jacquez Anlage,Anlage said she only got to be her son’s mother for four years. Anlage and her husband adopted him from foster care when he was 16.
“He was learning what it was like to have people love him for who he was and not expect things from him and he was learning how to just be a kid,” Anlage said. “He had such a good heart and whoever did this obviously had no idea of what kind of person he was. I just want them to think about their own mothers and think about their own families and how they would feel if it was them, how they would feel if it was their mom or dad feeling like this every day.