LAYTON -- Chris Englan remembers one of the last conversations he had with James Warhola.
"He asked me what I wanted to be when I grow up," Englan said with a laugh. "I told him I wanted to finish college first. He then said, right away without missing a beat, 'I want to be an artist.' "
The young boy then showed Englan his drawings, including a fire truck.
"It was amazing," Englan said.
James, 8, and his sister, Jean, 7, were found dead in the family home Wednesday night. Their mother, Sun Cha Warhola, 44, is charged with two counts of aggravated murder.
Englan, 25, works at Yun's Korean Market with his mother, Yun Englan, and attends Weber State University.
"I can't believe what's going on," he said.
Englan said he learned of the children's deaths when he arrived home Wednesday night. His mother was on the phone with a friend, speaking Korean.
"I could hear the stress in her voice," Englan said. "I didn't want to believe it."
Chris Englan said Sun Cha Warhola often brought her children with her to the store for the past four years until February. The Englans said they had not seen the Warhola family since then.
He said the Korean community, which numbers about 2,000 people in Northern Utah, usually "sticks together."
"This is like a social gathering place for the Korean community," he said about the store.
The Warhola children treated him like a big brother when they came to the store, he said.
He played games with them and took photographs of them sitting in his car in front of the store.
Englan said Jean liked to serve customers who ate in the cafe side of the store.
"She would take them their (sodas) and talk to them," he said.
"An adult killing a child, I don't understand. They're our future."
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