Alonzo Menifield is 32 years old and was born in Dallas, Texas, on October 18, 1987. Menifield and his brother, Cecil, were separated from their mother when they were eleven years old because she was entangled in the drug trade.

Unfortunately, he never meets his biological father because he died when he was a teenager.

His mother, according to reports, was a Belizean immigrant who turned to drugs after his father died. He wasn’t the only child, though; Cecil Menifield, his older brother, was also present.

Similarly, after a drug-fueled highway encounter, his biological father was shot by Los Angeles police officers. Three years later, he met Godwin Ezenwa, his adoptive father, who changed the course of a troubled teen’s life.