Family described Raja McCallister as kind and loving father and brother.
"He went to his little cousin's basketball games and football games. And when I was young, he used to come to games and things like that when I played sports. So yeah, he was the kind of guy to show up," said Krystal Menefee, McCallister's younger sister.
"The life of the party, you know what I'm saying? Like, when Raja came into the room, he definitely lit up the room," said Dominique Deweese, McCallister's little brother.
McCallister's life was taken at the age of 45.
According to court documents, he confronted 63-year-old Teddy Hall Sr. for parking in a handicapped spot.
McCallister's girlfriend told police Hall agreed to move the car, and she thought the situation was resolved.
But around half an hour later, when they came back out to walk their dog, court documents state Hall allegedly shot him four times.
Police said he died on the scene.
"I mean it was the most, one of the most traumatic phone calls that I believe you can get is when you hear something like that, when you don't know what was going on, when it's frantic and chaotic," said Menefee. "I was with my mother at the time, and those are, those are traumatic moments that you will never be able to erase or to that, that I'm going to carry that, that call right with me."
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Menefee tells KATU she feels for every family that has to go through this.
"Just over the last year, what we've seen out here, um, from teenage deaths to all the way up to older, you know, people's lives being taken. I mean, it's a lot of trauma in this community. This is happening every single night. We're getting these calls where we're running in trauma. Someone's crying. It's at a point where it's ridiculous. Honestly," she said.
When KATU asked what they would like to see happen in court, Menefee gave a concise answer.
That's between the creator and the system that we've all built. I'm not a judge and a jury of anything. I am a sister who has lost someone. And honestly, a million years wouldn't take away the tears. A million years wouldn't take away the visions and the memories of seeing someone you love gone.
And now, the siblings said they just have to continue pushing forward in life.
"Even though this has shattered my family to the core, I want to be clear. This will not break my family. This has not broken me. It's hurt me. It has, you know, taken a piece of my spirit. You know, I'm his little sister. I'm the baby. But it will not break me. If anything, it's lit a fire under some of us to do more, to be more, to say, more to go for our dreams a little faster," Menefee said. "He'd say dream big. He said, go for it. He was pro-black excellence. His name was Raja Black Excellence McCallister. That was what he was about."