KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Friends and family members are remembering a slain 17-year-old Southwest High School student whose mother believes his shooting was part of a dare.
Rickey King was killed on Saturday night. Friends at his school held candles and released balloons in his memory on Tuesday afternoon.
Friends said King was a Boy Scout, a golfer and aspired to be a police officer. He was a member of ROTC and will be buried in his uniform.
"Every morning and afternoon, he'd help me and other cadets (raise and lower) the flag," said friend Michael Foster. "It was kind of his favorite thing to do at school."
"Rickey's the type of person you don't replace," said JROTC instructor Maj. Gene Briseno. "You can't replace him and you can only hope that somehow or other you can fill that void."
His mother, Cheryl Lumpkins, said she saw the yellow police tape on Saturday near 55th Street and Prospect Avenue on Saturday, but didn't know that officers found her son in a car there. A friend who was with King was seriously hurt.
She said that since her son was shot, callers have been telling her about things that have been posted on Twitter.
"It was a dare, a gang-related thing," she said. "So I figured if they dared to put it on Twitter, I dare you to come forward and turn yourself in. I dare you to do that."
Rickey King was killed on Saturday night. Friends at his school held candles and released balloons in his memory on Tuesday afternoon.
Friends said King was a Boy Scout, a golfer and aspired to be a police officer. He was a member of ROTC and will be buried in his uniform.
"Every morning and afternoon, he'd help me and other cadets (raise and lower) the flag," said friend Michael Foster. "It was kind of his favorite thing to do at school."
"Rickey's the type of person you don't replace," said JROTC instructor Maj. Gene Briseno. "You can't replace him and you can only hope that somehow or other you can fill that void."
His mother, Cheryl Lumpkins, said she saw the yellow police tape on Saturday near 55th Street and Prospect Avenue on Saturday, but didn't know that officers found her son in a car there. A friend who was with King was seriously hurt.
She said that since her son was shot, callers have been telling her about things that have been posted on Twitter.
"It was a dare, a gang-related thing," she said. "So I figured if they dared to put it on Twitter, I dare you to come forward and turn yourself in. I dare you to do that."