PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Debbie Hicks is very clear about what she wants and what she doesn’t want.

Her 43-year-old son, Ladarius Davis, was stabbed to death near a Safeway in the Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhood in the early hours of February 11.

“The person who did this, he don’t know the gravity, the pain he caused so many people,” Hicks told KOIN 6 News. “You know, deep in my heart I want him to be caught and put in jail. I don’t want nobody doing nothing to him. I want him to be caught and put in jail and pay greatly for what you’ve done.”

Davis was already dead when police arrived at a homeless camp in the parking lot of a Safeway along SE 122nd Avenue. Investigators said Davis was not a Safeway employee.

The family is still searching for answers. But Hicks wants her son to be known as more than a victim and that his family loved him.

“He knew he was well loved by all of us,” she said. “If you met him, you would like him.”

She’s fighting through the grief.

“I’m getting by on prayers right now. I’m just getting through day by day.”

Hicks lost her husband but, she said, “this is a different type of lost. A whole new different kind of hurt. It’s a whole different type of emptiness.”

Davis’s sister, Jamisha Hicks, said the news of his death felt unreal.

“It still does until this day. We still wait to see him walking up or sitting down here when he gets home,” she said.

So far, no arrests have been made.

Anyone with information about this case is encouraged to contact Portland police.