Vigil held for 17-year-old Warren boy killed in shooting

WARREN, Mich. – Kenneth Cutts Jr., 17, was shot and killed in Warren on Monday night over a basketball game that he had nothing to do with.

His family went back to the neighborhood they left in Detroit because they wanted to get their children away from street violence, but it found them anyway.

Family and friends at Friday's candlelight vigil spoke of the football star and good student they loved. "All A's and B's. He was smart and on it, " his sister Kiara said.

"We've got this sweet little family that would be like nothing bad would ever happen to them." 

Cutts was a football standout at Roseville High School. Many of his classmates showed up at the vigil wearing T-shirts with his number on it.

When it came time to gather in a circle to say a prayer his immediate family stood in the middle. His mother and father were too grief-stricken to utter a word.

They just cried and hugged as those around them recited the Lord's Prayer.

Larry Londra Walker was arraigned on one count of first-degree homicide and a felony firearms violation in connection with Cutts' death.


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