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“You are gone from this earth but you will forever be here in my heart. You were really truly one of the most beautiful creations that God had ever made and I would like to thank God for bringing you into my life,” Veronica wrote ahead of Royalty’s service.
At the funeral, Royalty’s grandfather delivered a tearful eulogy about his late granddaughter.
“I miss her,” Harris continued. “But she’ll always be with me. Always.”
Royalty’s father John Floyd, who is still in shock over his daughter’s gruesome death, also managed to say a few words at the funeral.
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“And to try and make heads or tails of what happened, it’s still something I can’t comprehend right now. It ain’t soaking in for some reason. I’m thinking one day this is all something that isn’t real,” John added.
On Oct. 15, authorities were called to a residence in the small city of Shaw after a family member discovered Royalty’s lifeless body burnt and stabbed inside a heated oven.
Royalty was alive when her grandmother, 48-year-old Carolyn Jones allegedly placed her inside the oven.
A deputy coroner at the Bolivar County Coroner’s office in MississippitoldThe Bolivar Commercialthat the young child died “from sharp stab wounds and inhaling the heated air in the oven.”
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On the night of the little girl’s death, Carolyn was immediately taken into custody and has been charged with first-degree murder, the Bolivar County Sheriff’s Department confirmed to PEOPLE.
The Bolivar County Sheriff’s Department also told PEOPLE, the child “was living at the residence with Jones at the time of the murder.”
“I’ve been in law enforcement a long time, 26 years almost. Some of the most horrific scenes I’ve seen in law enforcement involve children. Those are some of the— they have an effect on us. We don’t want it to happen, but unfortunately, things like this happen,” Bolivar County Sheriff Kevin Williams said in a press conference on Oct. 16, WREGreported.
When asked for a motive, Williams said, “We are trying to figure that out ourselves. We have no idea at this point.”
Royalty’s mother also created aGoFundMeand raised over $6,000 to cover Royalty’s funeral costs.
source: people.com
