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As a child, Shannon said, the brothers and their mother, Sharon, moved from apartment to apartment around the Atlanta suburb of Austell. Struggling to make ends meet, Shannon recalled his mother going into a grocery store to steal food for the boys.
Sharon Brooks had run-ins with the law, with two separate charges for shoplifting in 2001 and possession of a controlled substance in 2010, according to a Cobb County Superior Court representative. The man Shannon said is his father, Andrew Antonio Evans, has a list of 12 charges, mostly for similar offenses, from 1994-2016, the court said.
“He was in prison most of my life,” Shannon said. “I’ve probably seen him 15 times.”
In elementary school, Shannon and Kalyn got into fights with other students and were disobedient to teachers. At home, they did whatever they wanted.
“Then the other, bigger thing was our surroundings,” Brooks said. “Drugs and violence at home, family fights and things like that. That is why they wanted us to move out of the area and go up north.”
In the sixth grade, Shannon and Kalyn moved to Jasper, a small town 60 miles north of Atlanta. After a stint with one of Sharon’s friends, the boys moved in with Natasha Green after Shannon befriended classmate Deondre, one of her four sons. With the Greens, the boys continued moving from place to place, sometimes sleeping on the floor.
Shannon and Kalyn met Weeks after enrolling in the seventh grade at Jasper Middle School. After Shannon joined Weeks’ science class, she began picking up details on his rocky upbringing and befriended the family, including the boys’ grandparents.
A year later, Sharon Brooks was headed back to jail — this time in Jasper’s Pickens County — and Weeks offered to help. “I just had built enough of a relationship with all of them,” she said. “I just stepped in and said if they need a place to go that is a little bit more stable and a little bit more permanent, they can come with me.”
Shannon Brooks reflected on that critical offer after practice this week as the Gophers prepared for Saturday’s game against Middle Tennessee State. Weeks plans to be among the crowd at TCF Bank Stadium.
“(My mom) played a huge part in just letting Melissa take us in,” Shannon said. “I really respect her for letting me and my brother to go to Melissa, who she hadn’t even met yet because she was in jail. It was one of those things that you’ve just got to trust it.”
http://www.twincities.com/2017/09/1...ng-back-shannon-brooks-and-his-brother-kalyn/
Go Gophers!!
As a child, Shannon said, the brothers and their mother, Sharon, moved from apartment to apartment around the Atlanta suburb of Austell. Struggling to make ends meet, Shannon recalled his mother going into a grocery store to steal food for the boys.
Sharon Brooks had run-ins with the law, with two separate charges for shoplifting in 2001 and possession of a controlled substance in 2010, according to a Cobb County Superior Court representative. The man Shannon said is his father, Andrew Antonio Evans, has a list of 12 charges, mostly for similar offenses, from 1994-2016, the court said.
“He was in prison most of my life,” Shannon said. “I’ve probably seen him 15 times.”
In elementary school, Shannon and Kalyn got into fights with other students and were disobedient to teachers. At home, they did whatever they wanted.
“Then the other, bigger thing was our surroundings,” Brooks said. “Drugs and violence at home, family fights and things like that. That is why they wanted us to move out of the area and go up north.”
In the sixth grade, Shannon and Kalyn moved to Jasper, a small town 60 miles north of Atlanta. After a stint with one of Sharon’s friends, the boys moved in with Natasha Green after Shannon befriended classmate Deondre, one of her four sons. With the Greens, the boys continued moving from place to place, sometimes sleeping on the floor.
Shannon and Kalyn met Weeks after enrolling in the seventh grade at Jasper Middle School. After Shannon joined Weeks’ science class, she began picking up details on his rocky upbringing and befriended the family, including the boys’ grandparents.
A year later, Sharon Brooks was headed back to jail — this time in Jasper’s Pickens County — and Weeks offered to help. “I just had built enough of a relationship with all of them,” she said. “I just stepped in and said if they need a place to go that is a little bit more stable and a little bit more permanent, they can come with me.”
Shannon Brooks reflected on that critical offer after practice this week as the Gophers prepared for Saturday’s game against Middle Tennessee State. Weeks plans to be among the crowd at TCF Bank Stadium.
“(My mom) played a huge part in just letting Melissa take us in,” Shannon said. “I really respect her for letting me and my brother to go to Melissa, who she hadn’t even met yet because she was in jail. It was one of those things that you’ve just got to trust it.”
http://www.twincities.com/2017/09/1...ng-back-shannon-brooks-and-his-brother-kalyn/
Go Gophers!!