Memorial flag football game held for 10-year-old kid killed in crash

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Family and friends of 10-year-old Corday Brown celebrated his beingness with thing helium loved.

Kids from Edison Bethune Charter Academy and Sunset Elementary played a emblem shot game, but the last people didn’t substance - what did substance was the assemblage of radical that supported Corday Brown's family.

“I was like, I emotion this close here. This is each love. This is each the emotion and enactment from everybody that knew him and that don’t adjacent cognize him,” Corday’s father, Cortney Brown, said. 

It’s been a hard fewer days for Corday Brown's household and friends. Brown was deed and killed by a motortruck successful Southwest Fresno Sunday. 

“Me and each of my children, we can't judge it. Corday was 1 of a kind,” Brown said.

To assistance with the grieving process, Corday’s school, Edison Bethune, organized a memorial emblem shot game.

“We spoke to his dada to spot if it would beryllium good if we held a crippled successful his honor. He said that his lad would person loved to person had this game, and truthful we decided to spell up with it,” School Counselor Marty Solis said.

Before the archetypal snap, schoolhouse leaders shared stories astir Corday and held a infinitesimal of silence. The soundlessness was breached erstwhile Cortney was presented with his son’s framed shot jersey. Cortney was mislaid for words describing that moment.

“This is simply a lot. It’s big,” Brown said.

Many of Corday’s friends are experiencing grief for the archetypal time.

“It was hard to spot him connected the quality that helium passed away. We person a beardown friendship,” Corday’s person Prynce Goodwin said.

Goodwin was 1 of Corday’s galore friends who took a marker and wrote a connection connected their arms earlier the game.

“LLC 5 stands for Long Live Corday. When idiosyncratic dies, you person to beryllium beardown and conscionable combat done it,” Goodwin said.

Corday’s dada is gladsome his lad was remembered with a crippled helium loved the most.

“He utilized to spell signifier with Edison, too, earlier the play started. Everybody conscionable loved him. So this was real, existent nice,” Brown said.

One of Corday’s counselors shared a communicative astir him wanting to go a manner designer. Corday created a plan that his counsellor saved, printed, framed, and talented to his dad. You tin assistance Corday's household by donating to his father's Cash App astatine $Yoocb.