“When I heard what happened I was devastated, like most would be when they hear that their brother's life was taken,” Ollison wrote. “During that time though, I didn’t feel an ounce of hate for whoever had did it.

“I questioned myself for a long time, staying up all night and wondering why I didn’t hate you. I wondered why I felt just as bad for your family as I did my own. I was in unbelievable shock when I found out who it was that did this, and didn’t believe it.”

Ollison and Lewis were classmates at Gaskill Middle School in Niagara Falls, “and I would go as far as to say that we were friends,” he wrote.

“I thought for a long time this made me a bad person,” Ollison continued. “I thought I should hate the person that killed my brother and I couldn’t bring myself to do it."

Ollison shared his “deep belief that every life is precious no matter what they do. Even if they murder someone, that life is still precious. That life was still hand-crafted and molded by God in some way shape or form.”