Wyatt Cooper Price Whitaker was 14 and lived in Nortonville, Kentucky. He died on Monday, January 25, 2016. Born July 27, 2001, he was an eighth-grade student at South Hopkins Middle School and played on the school’s football and basketball teams.

Family remembered him as popular and warm, nicknamed the Prince by his sisters. He enjoyed hunting, boating, four-wheeling and followed UK basketball. Services were held at The River in Nortonville, and he was buried in the Whitaker Family Cemetery. The Wyatt Whitaker Athletic Scholarship Foundation was later established in his memory.

If anyone has information about Wyatt or the circumstances of his death, please share what is known.