'He was a cool dude to hang with overall and he was close to everyone'
During these few weeks, Amofah distanced himself from the friends he had gathered in the Nintendo andcommunities, sometimes blocking them on Twitter. Torres, reached out after he was hospitalized the second time and was left with"frustration since we all wanted to help," he said."Des would just block you out of his life if you approached him in a way he didn't like."
As Amofah continued to block out those around him, his friends started to worry. Hunter, Alice and dozens of others tried to contact him to see if he was alright, either getting blocked or ignored."All his friends, family or the people that were close to him, tried to reach out to him," Hunter said."I know everyone messaged. We assumed he knew what he was doing."
, his body was found floating in the water. In a video posted to his personal YouTube channel on the day of, Amofah apologized saying"I shouldn't have pushed so many people away, now I have nobody."The world was devastated, with countless news outlets and content creators eulogizing what Etika stood for. Those who knew and watched Etika grow had to learn how to cope in a world without him.
In 2010, Amofah's brother Randy passed away from an asthma attack during a sandstorm in Accra, Ghana."Whenever Desmond would mention him to me, he wouldn't believe that there was an afterlife; he didn't believe anything happened to people after they died," Alice said."When Desmond died, I was struggling with those same thoughts, but hoping that he was wrong.
"I'm amazed at how far we've come as a community," Double A said."The overall idea here is to spread mental health awareness and to be empathic about it. Brooklyn is Etika's home and it always will be."
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