2nd annual 'Kindness Day' held in Oakley in honor of Alexis Gabe
Oakley honors 'Kindness Day,' remembering slain 24-year-old
The second annual Kindness Day in honor of Alexis Gabe was held at Oakley's Civic Center Park on Sunday. Gabe's family and friends gathered along with community members to honor Gabe.
OAKLEY, Calif. - The second annual Kindness Day in honor of Alexis Gabe was held at Oakley's Civic Center Park on Sunday. Gabe's family and friends gathered along with community members to honor Gabe.
"She was always really nice. Time didn’t matter to her, if you were her friend you were pretty much her friend forever… I do feel really bad. I miss her a lot," Amy George, a friend of Gabe's told KTVU.
Gabe's death in January 2022 sparked a long search effort for her remains and catalyzed the potential recall of another Bay Area district attorney.
Video shared with KTVU shows the suspect in Gabe’s death unloading two trash bags into his mother’s house in 2022. Law enforcement says the bags contained Gabe’s remains.
When Gabe went missing in 2022, law enforcement keyed in on her ex-boyfriend, Marshall Curtis Jones, as a primary suspect. Jones died after an interaction with law enforcement in June 2022.
Gabe’s remains were later discovered in Amador County. Though two bags of remains were found, only one bag was sent in for forensic testing.
As the Gabe family dug into the evidence from the case, they became suspicious that Curtis’s mother, Alicia Coleman-Clark, was involved in the crime.
The family pushed Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton to review the evidence again, including checking the second bag of remains for Coleman-Clark's DNA.
DA Becton announced on Thursday that the second bag of Gabe’s remains could not be found, and the office was unable to have it tested. Coleman-Clark will not face charges due to a lack of evidence, closing the door on the Gabe family’s years-long fight for justice.
"It’s not a retribution for us joining the recall, it’s just that it's not just us. There’s a lot of families that she failed," Gwyn Gabe, the father of Alexis told KTVU.
For now, the Gabe family is left to wonder how a piece of evidence from their daughter's killing could go missing. Though her family says Gabe will never receive the justice she deserves, they are grateful to the community for supporting them the whole way through.
"She had a lot of good style and she had really good taste. She was always really funny, so if anything, for Kindness Day, you can just make somebody laugh, that is like on point Alexis," George said.