When my son Shawn passed away, I was grieving, confused, and looking for help. A referral from an organization partnered with funeral homes across the United States led me to Ball Funeral Chapel in Pittsburgh, operated by Gary Ball.
Gary initially sounded eager to help. He quoted me a price in the $700 range for cremation and shipping of the ashes. At that time, the plan was to have my son cremated in Pittsburgh and his ashes sent to me in Baltimore. I didn’t have the death certificate yet, and I was under the impression that I would need it to retrieve his body from the morgue — a process I soon realized they never intended to allow me to do.
But then something changed. When my family offered to help bring Shawn home to Baltimore for a proper service, Gary strongly pushed back. He told me how expensive Baltimore funeral homes would be and discouraged me from changing plans.
And then he said something that struck me cold.
👉🏽 He claimed he could see the death certificate signed twice in his computer — just two days after my son died.
How? Who gave him that access? Why was a funeral director referencing internal documentation from the state that I, his mother, couldn’t even obtain and still dint have today?
Had I gone through with Gary Ball’s service, I would’ve never seen my son’s body — never seen the knot on his forehead, the blood-stained skin, the damaged nose, or the distorted skull.
💥 I would’ve never known anything was wrong.
The original plan would’ve allowed them to quietly cremate my son, no questions asked, and wipe the evidence away — just another “drug death,” another “accident,” another name gone too soon.
But because we changed plans, because I fought to bring him home, I saw what they didn’t want me to see.
That decision is why I’m still here, still fighting for justice, still uncovering the inconsistencies they tried to bury with his body.
Please continue to share this petition. The more we uncover, the clearer the cover-up becomes. And I will not stop speaking out — not now, not ever.
(P.S. now looking back at the email date, this discussion happened THEE VERY DAY Stephanie Ballard tools me my son was found unresponsive by his roommates)
✊🏽 Justice for Shawn.
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