FLINT, MI – In emotionally-charged testimony, the father of the victim asked for the four juveniles to be sentenced as adults in the deadly Interstate 75 rock-throwing case.

Kenneth White, father of Kenneth A. White, gave the testimony during a juvenile sentencing hearing of 16-year-old Trevor A. Gray on Friday, Feb. 15 at Genesee County Circuit Court in Flint.

Gray is one of four teens accused of tossing rocks from the Dodge Road overpass above southbound Interstate 75 in Vienna Township on Oct. 18, 2017, police say.

“I believe that each and every one of these young men should be equally charged as adults," said the father, Kenneth White. "They all made decisions to load the vehicle with the rocks, and they all agreed to throw the rocks over the overpass. They were all part of this event. I really don’t believe one should be charged and the rest get light sentences as juveniles because of more privileged lives. My son paid for his life.”

One of the rocks, estimated to be about 20 pounds, crashed through the windshield of 32-year-old Kenneth A. White’s vehicle, killing him, police say.

Genesee Circuit Judge Joseph J. Farah has the option to sentence Gray, Mikadyn M. Payne, 17, Mark A. Sekelsky, 17, and Alexzander Miller, 16, as juveniles or adults following a series of juvenile sentencing hearings. Eighteen-year-old Kyle J. Anger will be sentenced as an adult in the case.

The judge has yet to make a decision in the juvenile cases.

Anger and codefendants Sekelsky, Payne and Gray entered pleas on Oct. 26, 2018. Miller entered a plea on Nov. 5, 2018. Anger pleaded guilty to second-degree murder while the other four pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Prosecutors agreed to dismiss 10 of the 11 charges each defendant faced.

Kenneth White, the victim’s father, said each defendant in these cases made the decision together, and ultimately he wants the answer of who threw the rock that killed his son.

“I don’t get my 10 o’clock phone call (any) more. I don’t get to see my son. Yes, they need to get sentenced,” he said. “They need to get sentenced, but three, four, five years down the road, they still get to walk again. They still get to talk to their families. They still get to have a life. They took that away from us. They took that away from all of us.”

Fred Meiers, Gray’s Flint-based attorney, said his client expressed remorse in the case. Meiers aimed to show Gray as an individual and separate him from the “group mentality” the cases have become.

“I think if you put each person alone – put Trevor alone – that is not who did the conduct," Meiers said. "Trevor Gray would not do that. Trevor Gray in a group and the mob of what that was that night fed on each other and did the conduct. We want to develop to show him as the man of who he is and who he should be as we continue the hearings.”

Each defendants had testified they loaded rocks and other objects onto Anger’s Ford pickup truck and proceeded to throw 10- to 12-inch rocks from the overpass onto I-75. Anger testified he threw four rocks, Gray and Payne testified throwing three each and Sekelsky testified to throwing two.

Detective Sgt. Jason Murphy, of the Genesee County Sheriff’s Department, also testified Friday. White’s mother, Theresa Simpson, testified Thursday in Payne’s hearing.

“I don’t know that I can ever feel in my heart to ever forgive that," said Kenneth White, the victim’s father. "You know, because if it was my son that took their son’s life, what kind of sentence would they want for my son? They wouldn’t want a slap on the wrist and a couple years of probation. They would want the max they can get. So why can’t we ask the same thing?”

The judge isn’t expected to rule on whether he will sentence the teens as juveniles or adults until he hears more testimony. The hearings continue next week with Sekelsky scheduled for Thursday and Miller for Friday.