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Kisha Holloway is comforted by friends and family during a celebration on what would have been her son's 10th birthday, Oct. 3, 2014. They gathered on Lucas Drive inDurham where Jaeden Sharpe was shot in the head on Jan. 4, 2014. He died Jan. 9. His murder was the first in 2014 in Durham.
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Kisha Holloway wore a necklace commemorating her son, Jaeden.
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Friends and family remember Jaeden by releasingballoons on his birthday Friday, Oct. 3.
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Fried fish was the main course at the celebration of Jaeden's birth and short life.
Jaeden Sharpe was 9 years old when he became Durham's first homicide victim of 2014. Last January, he was shot and killed on Lucas Drive.
On Friday, Oct. 3, family and friends celebrated what would have been Jaeden's 10th birthday.