Wednesday, April 14, 1999
Slain man's mother tries to cope with losing him
BY TANYA BRICKING
The Cincinnati Enquirer
When Susan Balzer had dinner with her son last week, they talked about what Brian Pilot wanted to do with his life.
He told her he wanted to get a job to save money for college. He planned to study marine biology. He wanted to be independent.
But his dreams and her expectations ended early Monday when he was stabbed to death.
There is no good way for a mother to cope with that kind of loss, said Mrs. Balzer, who is planning for a funeral Thursday.
The hardest part is “just to know you can't talk to him. You can't touch him. You can't hold him,” said the 38-year-old mother, who now lives in St. Bernard.
“As far as his life story, what life? He was 19 years old. He was just starting his life.” Mr. Pilot, known as “B.J.,” was the oldest of Mrs. Balzer's three sons.
He was preparing to find a job, and he had been staying recently with a cousin and other roommates on Rut ledge Avenue in Price Hill.
His cousin was the one who woke to find him stabbed Monday morning and called 911. The operator tried to tell him how to do cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), but Mr. Pilot was already dead.
Within hours, police charged William “Billy” Miller, 21, of Delhi Township, with murder.
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