Stacey Wales spent two years working on the victim impact statement she planned to give in court after her brother was shot to death in a 2021 road rage incident. But even after all that time, Wales felt her statement wouldn’t be enough to capture her brother Christopher Pelkey’s humanity and what he would’ve wanted to say.

Family and friends of Christopher Pelkey submitted dozens of statements to the court before a man convicted of shooting him during a road rage incident was sentenced