MUSKEGON, Mich. — It's November in Michigan and some branches aren't ready to let go. On a trail in Muskegon, Stacey and Alan McCabe aren't ready either.

"He was a happy kid. He was a free spirit," Stacey said while her husband wiped away tears.

Their son Michael would've been with them on the trail, if not for an evening last October.

"Alan found a gun casing on our bedroom floor and when he picked it up, that's when he saw Michael lying on the floor," Stacey said through tears. "And that's that's how we found out that he just is gone now. He was 18.”

Michael was beginning his first year on scholarship at Muskegon Community College, just at the start of adulthood.

"People complain about being empty nesters. We never got to have to go through that," Stacey explained. "And it happened

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