We came to mourn Jamiel Andre Shaw Jr., a 17-year-old junior from Los Angeles High who everyone called “Jas” (pronounced “Jazz”), the nickname that initially belonged to his father before Pops graciously handed it down. On the first Sunday night in March, Jas was walking home in Arlington Heights when two Latino gangbangers started eyeballing him from a trailing car. Jas kept walking. When they hopped out of their car and approached him, Jas stopped just 40 yards from the front door of his house, the same distance he dreamed of running for NFL scouts some day.

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ESPN Page 2 - Simmons: ‘To An Athlete Dying Young’

Another random act of violence.  Another young life ended too soon.