Stef'An Strawder didn't just find his calling on the basketball court. He found a family. Now, in the wake of his sudden death at 18, in a mass shooting Monday outside a Fort Myers, Florida, nightclub, that basketball family is grieving Strawder's loss - the loss of a natural leader, an uplifting spirit with an infectious laugh and a superstar player. "I'm struggling," Dawn McNew, Strawder's basketball coach at Lehigh Senior High School, tells People in a written statement. "I almost feel like I can't even do him justice in attempting to describe how we all feel about him. "It's kind...
- 7/28/2016
- by Adam Carlson, @acarlson91
- PEOPLE.com
Gunfire erupted at a nightclub hosting a swimsuit-themed party for teens in Florida, leaving two teens dead and at least 17 other people wounded, officials said Monday. It was not immediately clear what triggered the violence, but Fort Myers police Capt. Jim Mulligan said the shooting was not an act of terror. Police detained three people and said the area around Club Blu had been deemed safe, Mulligan said. The slain teens were 14-year-old Sean Archilles and 18-year-old Stef'an Strawder, police said. Archilles lived about a mile from the nightclub, said his father, Jean Archilles.
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- 7/25/2016
- by the Associated Press
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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