A Milwaukee boy died days after a blaze broke out at a duplex where his uncle used a stove as a source of heat and fell asleep.
Nearly a week after Rashaan died in the fire, his grandmother is still grappling to accept that he passed away.
“It’s a hard pill to swallow. It’s hard,” Bernice Julkes said.
“I miss talking to my grandbaby. He would call me, Facetime me all the time, all the time. He’d say, ‘Granny, whatcha doing? I miss that.”
The 6-year-old was pulled from the house on 36th Street and Rohr Avenue where the fire started when his uncle fell asleep with the stove on.
Other children at the home started throwing garbage on the stove starting the blaze.
The uncle and several other children managed to flee the home but Rashaan perished in the blaze.
“Everyone is really hurt, and it’s unfair. It’s unfair,” Julkes said.
