A tattoo in his memory covers Last-Kolb's forearm. Jeremy Blaze, the artist who drew it, knew her son very well and had tattooed him in the past.
"The tattoo represents who he was, a little bit about the tattoos he had on himself," Last-Kolb says.
Last-Kolb's tattoo of her son's first name includes a rose, a black ribbon, angel wings and a cross, all symbols that fascinated Jessie. The tattoo is done in black ink, like the ones he had. (Radja Mahamba/Radio-Canada)
Tattoos were important in Jessie's life, she says. The night he died, he was going to get a new one.