Javonne Davis was 15 and a freshman at Camden High School when he was shot while walking home from school on the afternoon of November 13, 2018. Reports say a fight that began inside the school spilled into the street near Princess and Euclid Avenues, and a gunman fired multiple shots at Javonne. He was found by police shortly after 3:30 p.m. with several gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at Cooper University Hospital about an hour later.

Javonne’s biography in reports highlights his promise: he wanted to play professional football and to own a barbershop after earning a business degree. He had participated in the Rutgers University Future Scholars Program and, despite facing the deaths of his father and periods of homelessness, was remembered for his kindness and for repairing and giving away bicycles to neighborhood children. His mother had warned school and law enforcement that another student had threatened to shoot him after a dispute the week before.

Authorities arrested another 15-year-old, Kidron Roberts, charging him with first-degree murder and weapons offenses; he was taken into custody at his home by federal marshals and held at the county Juvenile Detention Center.