Hugs and tears: flows of sadness over the funerals of two brothers killed in fire-Pittsburgh Post Gazette

/Lake Gazette Fong

KiDonn and KrisDon were restless young brothers who shared the soccer games, action figures and the cult of the family and friends.

Inseparable in the life and death, was a white coffin and single that cut short the boys shared on Friday, as the same distressed for the family and friends filled a church in the District of Hill to mourn two lives in a fire that left many questions.

Flames swept the apartment North Versailles where KiDonn Pollard-Ford, 7 and 4, KrisDon Pollard-Williams, lived with his mother, Kiaira Pollard, whose moans sounded on a somber tone as body closed the coffin of their children and a pastor urged to find strength in God.

' In times like these when we suffer, normal what we ask is, "if only God could have been there, why this happened? ' "The Reverend Kurtley Knight of seventh-day Adventists Hillcrest said the tearful crowd". Why think bad things to good people? Why it seems that we always around people who love die? Why two boys, who had experienced any real life? "

As these mourners questions haunted, Detective of Allegheny County police attempted to answer many of your own, to learn why the brothers were home alone, hidden in his room during the fire of June 30. Police found KiDonn dead under a pile of clothes; KrisDon, which was responding in a bed, died the next day.

Police gave the Hall family that mourn their losses Friday but Lieutenant Andrew Schurman unit of murder said detectives soon bring criminal charges in the deaths of children.

"It will be loaded, the person responsible to leave them alone," said, although he did not elaborate. The cause of the fire in the early morning also remain unknown, but Fire Marshal County Deputy Chief Don Brucker said Friday probably began in the master bedroom near an air conditioning unit for the researchers expect to discuss next week.

But responses could not possibly facilitate wave of pain that washes through the Church, where pastor reminded the boys as "perfect diamond to their parents and grandparents."

Brother curious KiDonn-"smidget", friends of the family-Green Valley primary school won a straight and he was tapped to participate in a program for Gifted students. He played Pee Wee football at school, but he was not adverse to share the game with his younger brother, KrisDon.

The youngest son, whose loved ones have called him a "Fat", as Power Rangers and brought joy to neighbors as he reacted in his apartment complex.

KrisDon's father, Christopher Williams, said that "they were pretty babies". "They were best friends."

Grandmother Carmen Pollard said that the boys were never apart.

"Take one", he said, "you have to take another."

Its proximity will ask funerary Roland j. Coston-Criswell the grant to the family of special applications that share a coffin. It is your business to offer resistance and lack of comfort, but confided that services of the boys were with him. Mr. Coston-Criswell also oversaw funerals of children killed in a succession of home fire Larimer Winslow Street, but the case of the brothers was more taxes: your family is your friends.

"Is mentally very difficult with children this age," said after returning from the grave. "Really to see the bodies and heard the story is harrowing heart."

Sadie Gurman: sgurman@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1878.

First published in July 9, 2011, at 12:00 am

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