Ken Daniels, a father still grieving the loss of his son, stood in front of a microphone, his voice cracking with emotion.
“Jamie was loyal, positive, caring, selfless — he wanted to hear people laugh, so he could too,” Daniels said about his son on Monday morning, standing in the lobby of the Fisher Building downtown Detroit. “And he had a wonderful laugh.”
His voice cracked again.
Daniels’ son, Jamie, died of a fentanyl-laced heroin overdose on Dec. 7, 2016, at the age of 23.
Since then, Daniels, the Detroit Red Wings play-by-play announcer, has told the story several times.