People living on Elleta Boulevard say they didn't expect the incident to happen. The neighbors are shocked about what happened to two year-old Cortez, and the local children expressed their emotions, as well.

Kids who play outside Cortez's apartment won't remember him as Cortez Johnson; they called him "Buckie." The kids used to push Buckie around in a small toy car.

"He was fun and he was nice," Buckie's seven year-old neighbor Nakwon Harris said. "He would hand me his ball and then he would have me throw it to him."

Buckie's grandmother described him as a cheerful child who liked to play.

"I used to let him play with our football and stuff," said nine year-old Quintone Christian. "And let him play with our toys."

When his friends play at the playground now, Cortez, or "Buckie," won't be there. But the memories of the fun spent together in the playground will stay with them.

A feeling all the children can agree to is that they miss him.

The family did not comment on camera, but Cortez's grandmother described murder suspect Horace Johnson as not a good person. A person who used to be in Bible study with Cortez's mother described Keyonda Lumpkin as a nice person who didn't always make the best choices.