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A high school football game participant from Jacksonville, Fla., was killed Wednesday nighttime as he tried to outrun a cargo train.

Authorities state 17-year-old Wesley Whiddon had been fishing with two teammates on a span Wednesday and was crossing to an embankment when the railroad train approached. The two other male children made it safely to the other side, but Whiddon did not.

"They were male children being boys. Huck Finn," said investigator Heather Pierce, who have a boy on the football game team, according to the Sunshine State Times-Union.

Foul drama is not suspected and drugs and alcoholic beverage were not a factor, according to police.

The other two male children were treated for minor hurts at a infirmary and released.

Whiddon's teammates state they will play their concluding springtime game in his honor.

"His female parent insisted that we acquire back out there," said Whiddon's caput coach, Neal Chipoletti, according to the Times-Union. "I believe it will assist our children to be around each other. We'll take a couple years off and then go back to the field."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

The household of a Los Angeles high school football game star allegedly killed by a pack member in the state illegally is getting behind a projected metropolis regulation intended to check down on illegal immigrant packs in the city.

The proposal, dubbed "Jamiel's Law" after shot victim Jamiel Henry Wheeler Shaw Jr., was drafted by Bruno Walter Moore, a political opposition of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

The parents of the 17-year-old Shaw spoke in favour of the regulation Tuesday before the Los Angeles City Council. A 1979 police force order parallel bars military military officers from enforcing federal in-migration laws, but the projected regulation would necessitate officers to Hunt down illegal immigrants who look to be pack members.

Pedro Espinoza, the 19-year-old suspect in Shaw's death, was released from jailhouse without government questioning his citizenship on March 1, the twenty-four hours before he allegedly shot Henry Wheeler Henry Wheeler Shaw to death, according to studies by MyFOXLA.com.

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Police state Henry Wheeler Shaw was walking place from a promenade on March 2 when Latino pack members pulled up in a auto and asked him, "Where are you from?" — codification for what pack did he belong to, police force said. Espinoza then allegedly shot Shaw, who was not a pack member. Related
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Espinoza was arrested March 7 and charged with murder. The complaint have been labeled gang-related, which could do him eligible for the decease penalty.

Police said Henry Wheeler Shaw was a standout running back and a good pupil at Los Angeles High School. He also was the Southern League's most valuable participant last season and had been recruited by universities including Stanford.

Shaw's mother, Army Sgt. Anita Shaw, had been serving in Republic Of Iraq but returned place when her boy was killed.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

LOS ANGELES, Golden State (CNN) -- Jamiel Henry Wheeler Shaw was just three doors from his house on March 2. His father told the 17-year-old high school football game star to be place before dark. That is exactly what he was trying to make when, just before dusk, gunfires rang out.

Jamiel Henry Wheeler Shaw had been recruited by Leland Stanford University. He was gunned down just outside his home.

Gang members pulled up in a auto and asked Henry Wheeler Shaw if he was in a gang. Henry Wheeler Shaw didn't have got clip to state them "no." Helium was mowed down before he could answer, police force say.

His dada heard the shots from inside his house and immediately called his son's cell telephone to warn him to remain away. But within seconds, the father realized what had happened.

"I just ran down there," Jamiel Henry Wheeler Shaw Sr. told CNN.

His boy was wearing the same shirt his dada had pressed for him that morning. "He was laying on the land and his human face was so peaceful. I knew he was dead."

"For three hours, I was just completely blacked out walking."

More than 7,500 statute miles away, Army Sgt. Anita Henry Wheeler Shaw was serving her 2nd circuit in Iraq. Her ranking military officer called her into his business office and told her to sit down down adjacent to the chaplain. He then informed her that her boy had been killed on the streets of .

"I freaked out," she said. "I wanted to run out of the room. I was screaming and kicking. I was shouting, 'No.'"

Anita Henry Wheeler Shaw is now back in Los Angeles to bury her son. Hundreds of household members and friends are expected to go to the funeral Tuesday for Shaw, a standout running back and sprinter at Los Angeles High School who had good classes and stayed out of problem despite his unsmooth neighborhood. Among the schools recruiting him was Leland Stanford University.

"He was a Christian and I give thanks Supreme Being for that because I cognize he's in a better place," his ma said, trembling as she sobbed. "He'd just seek all the clip to make the right thing. He was so good."

Henry Wheeler Shaw is one of respective guiltless victims in a atrocious three-week spate of around Los Angeles. A adult male was gunned down as he held a 2-year-old babe in his arms. A 13-year-old male child was shot to decease last hebdomad as he went to pick lemons from a tree. In another incident, a 6-year-old male child was critically wounded when he was shot in the caput while riding in the auto with his family; two pack members have got got been arrested in connexion with that shooting, according to police.

"I believe what is particularly formidable for all of us is just the random nature of these shootings," Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said last week.

Cipher have been arrested in connexion with the shot of Shaw, although patrol have said they believe the taws were Latino pack members. Don't Miss

Police Head William Bratton and Deputy Head Kenneth Granary met with community members from the South Side of Los Angeles over the weekend to seek to calm down latent hostilities between achromatic and Latino communities. Among those in attending were Shaw's parents and his little brother.

Bratton acknowledged some vicinities are prevailing with implicit in racial latent hostilities that have got "taken too many immature lives." He said he is in the procedure of hiring 1,000 new police force military officers to assist armed combat interior metropolis pack violence.

"There's no denying that some of the law-breaking in this metropolis is a direct consequence of hatred, animosity, racial animosity, ethnical differences," Bratton said. "We must all work to the best of our ability to seek to forestall that."

"None of it is right," said Garner. "We can't acquire so incensed that we lose focusing that it's going on on both sides."

He added, "Wrong is wrong."

The violent death of Henry Wheeler Shaw have rallied his neighborhood. Tons of people gathered outside his place for a vigil last hebdomad and placed candles, flowers and blue-and-white balloons (his squad colors) at a improvised memorial. One mark read, "We love you! Jamiel Shaw."

On the online societal networking land site Facebook, more than than 100 people have got joined a page called "Good people dwell in our Black Maria forever rake Jamiel Shaw."

"Loved you tons babyboi! Still do! I cognize many, many, many people who are missing you right NOW!!!" wrote Christina Jimmy Stewart on the Facebook wall.

Another person, Harley Lally, wrote, "Football will never be the same without you. I lose you every Sunday, and every clip I step on that field."

Shaw, a junior, carried the ball 74 modern times for 1,052 paces this season, with an norm of 14.2 paces per carry, according to MaxPreps Web site. The longer of his 10 touchdowns went for 75 yards.

He passed the ball 1 clip all twelvemonth in the last game of the season -- the last game of his career. It was a 60-yard touchdown strike.

But he will be missed for more than than his football. The darling participant with the large smiling meant so much more.

The father and boy old age ago had made a pact: Keep focused, stay away from drugs and gangs, and acquire into college on an athletic scholarship. In return, the dada promised to do everything for his son, nicknamed "Jazz," to make that happen.

Breaking down in tears, the father said, "I guaranteed 'Jazz.' That's why it aches so much -- because I told him, 'I assure you, if you give these years, I'll give with you.'"

The dada said more than must be done to battle pack violence. "It's a pack job and they have got nil in their bosom for people."

Shaw's mother, the Army sergeant, compares the pack members who killed her boy to those she's fighting against in Iraq. "To me, they're terrorists."

By Teddy Boy Schultz

Indianapolis -- Bud Willard Huntington Wright and Richard Brinsley Richard Brinsley Sheridan made their manner into the Hoosier State high school football game record books today with a 34-28 win over Rockville in the Class A State Finals.

Sheridan High School participants throw the trophy and signaling three after winning their 3rd state statute title during Friday's IHSAA Class 1A State Football Finals held at the RCA Dome. Richard Brinsley Sheridan beat out Rockville 34-28. - Flatness Detrich / The Star

The win is the 3rd in a row for the Blackhawks and a state-record 9th overall. Willard Huntington Wright have been at the helm for all nine championships, breaking former Carmel and Ben Davys manager Dick Dullaghan's record of eight.

The win didn't come up easy for Sheridan, which had breezed through five former playoff opponents. The Blackhawks trailed 14-7 after one one-fourth and 14-13 at the half.

But signal caller Dent Zachery took over in the 2nd half, running for 186 of his 198 yards. Zachery returned a kickoff 87 paces for a touchdown, threw an 18-yard scoring base on balls to Corey Hamersley, ran for three touchdowns and intercepted a base on balls on defense.

Sheridan won despite playing without star running back-safety Ty Perkins for all but the first minute-and-a-half. Perkins said he injured his knee joint and will have got an magnetic resonance imaging Saturday or Monday.