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"Friday, August 29 was a big day for Lennon Lacy. His high school football team, the West Bladen Knights, was taking on the West Columbus Vikings and Lacy, 17, was determined to make his mark. He’d been training all summer for the start of the season, running up and down the bleachers at the school stadium wearing a 65-pound exercise jacket. Whenever his mother could afford it, he borrowed $7 and spent the day working out at the Bladenboro gym, building himself up to more than 200 pounds. As for the future, he had it all planned out: this year he’d become a starting linebacker on the varsity team, next year he’d earn a scholarship to play football in college, and four years after that he’d achieve the dream he’d had since he was a child—to make it in the NFL.
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But Lacy never made it to the game that night. At 7.30am on Friday – exactly 12 hours before the game was scheduled to start – he was found hanging from a swingset about a quarter of a mile from his home. His tight-knit family was thrown into despair, and a question echoed around the streets of the tiny town of Bladenboro, North Carolina: what had happened to Lennon Lacy?
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Five days later, the investigating team, consisting of local police and detectives from the state bureau of investigation, told the family it had found no evidence of foul play. There was no mention of suicide, but the implication was clear...."
Full: http://www.alternet.org/civil-liber...ul-imagery?paging=off¤t_page=1#bookmark
"Friday, August 29 was a big day for Lennon Lacy. His high school football team, the West Bladen Knights, was taking on the West Columbus Vikings and Lacy, 17, was determined to make his mark. He’d been training all summer for the start of the season, running up and down the bleachers at the school stadium wearing a 65-pound exercise jacket. Whenever his mother could afford it, he borrowed $7 and spent the day working out at the Bladenboro gym, building himself up to more than 200 pounds. As for the future, he had it all planned out: this year he’d become a starting linebacker on the varsity team, next year he’d earn a scholarship to play football in college, and four years after that he’d achieve the dream he’d had since he was a child—to make it in the NFL.
.
.
.
But Lacy never made it to the game that night. At 7.30am on Friday – exactly 12 hours before the game was scheduled to start – he was found hanging from a swingset about a quarter of a mile from his home. His tight-knit family was thrown into despair, and a question echoed around the streets of the tiny town of Bladenboro, North Carolina: what had happened to Lennon Lacy?
.
.
Five days later, the investigating team, consisting of local police and detectives from the state bureau of investigation, told the family it had found no evidence of foul play. There was no mention of suicide, but the implication was clear...."
Full: http://www.alternet.org/civil-liber...ul-imagery?paging=off¤t_page=1#bookmark
