NYC high school football star, honors student shot dead just 4 days before 17th birthday remembered for ‘million-dollar smile’

Fuente: New York Post

A teen who was fatally shot at a Brooklyn public housing complex was remembered at a vigil on Wednesday as a loving high school football star just days away from celebrating his 17th birthday. A memorial outside 16-year-old Ka’Mardre Coleman’s Brooklyn home was filled with dozens of friends and family remembering the standout Sheepshead Bay Sharks football player whose life was cut short when he was shot in the chest inside a NYCHA building in the neighborhood Monday evening. Tearful mourners released balloons in the shape of the number 5 — the teen’s football and basketball jersey number — and held heartbreaking signs that read “Forever 16.