“I can never forget Melo,” Melchizedek Tixcy’s father
Thirteen-year-old Melchizedek Tixcy who was gunned down in his home on July 31 has finally been laid to rest.
The teen, who died two days before his birthday, was remembered fondly at his funeral service on Wednesday, at the Victory Pentecostal Church in Vieux Fort.
A former student of Vieux Fort Comprehensive Secondary School, Tixcy was remembered as a selfless individual with great ambitions and an infectious smile.
The tributes that were dedicated to him were heartfelt and sentimental, and as his father Antonious Tixcy recalled, “he was a special child.”
“He always (knew) how to take care of his father,” the young boy’s father said lovingly.
Antonious, who is blind, told The VOICE in an interview last month, that Melchizedek was his essentially his right hand.
“He (took) good care of daddy. I can never forget Melo,” he said at the funeral service.
Thousands tuned in to the service online with over 22,000 views recorded the following day, and hundreds attended the service. His school mates paid tribute in a poem written by his English teacher, to a peer who’d died way too soon.
Melchizedek had left an indelible mark on the lives of those around him and it was evident, his sister Terkaya Tixcy stated.
“It just amazes me to see how many of you could experience what a lovable young man Melchizedek was,” she said, marvelling at the number of people who were present.
But she also said that she imagined “that night over and over again thinking of how I could make the situation different.”
Nonetheless, his sister is comforted, as she believes Melchizedek “is rejoicing with the angels because he was a man of God.”
On Friday August 2, officers attached to the Major Crimes Unit arrested eighteen-year-old Markaley Simeon of Blanchard, Desruisseaux on suspicion of committing the murder of Melchizedek.
“Markaley Simeon was escorted to the Magistrate’s Court for a bail hearing after which he was remanded in custody,” a press release said, noting that the Major Crimes Unit had led the investigations into the circumstances surrounding his homicide.
But though Melchizedek is no longer present and was robbed of a life he so deserved, his family members and friends find comfort in his legacy – one that is bright as ever; one that is everlasting.