The family of a murdered man lecture at a South West knife crime school

There was no shuffling, mumbling, or lapses in concentration as Mrs. Dustan told the story of a Saturday night gone wrong.

“My brother received one stab wound to the stomach,” she told a group of 10th-grade students.

“He hit two arteries in the stomach and within three minutes of receiving the wound there was internal bleeding.”

There was sadness in her voice as she continued to speak.

“One stab wound. He was big, bigger than me. One stab wound and that took away my person, my brother.”

Ms. Dustan told the children, aged 14 to 15, about a man who “decided to carry a knife that evening.”

Jake Hill, who was 24 at the time of the stabbing, was sentenced to a minimum of 28 years in prison after being found guilty of murder.

“He will be released at the earliest at the age of 53, his son will be 29. Because of the decision he made that night, he will lose his son’s entire childhood,” she said.

She also told students about the sympathy she feels for Jake Hill’s family, whom she described as “kind, caring and wonderful people.”