Later that morning, Claudia noticed he’d left some of his football gear on the line, so she called the school to say she’d bring it to him before the game. Next morning there was no sign of Lacy, and Walton and Lacy’s mother, Claudia, thought he’d gone off to school. “I told him he needed to get to bed, the game was next day, and he said ‘OK, Daddy’.” A little later Walton heard the front door open and close Walton assumed Lacy must have stepped out of the house, but thought no more of it and went to sleep. Around midnight on the night before the game, he came out of his bedroom to fetch a glass of water and saw his son preparing his school bag for the following morning. The last person known to have seen Lacy alive was his father, Larry Walton. The Knights had lost one of the most promising players his tight-knit family was thrown into despair and a question echoed around the streets of the tiny town of Bladenboro, North Carolina: what had happened to Lennon Lacy? At 7.30am on Friday – exactly 12 hours before the game was scheduled to start – he was found hanging from a swing set about a quarter of a mile from his home. He never changed his mind or wavered from the course.”īut Lacy never made it to the game that night. His brother, Pierre Lacy, said that football was the constant that ran through Lennon’s life since he started out as a Pee Wee: “He was very serious about being a professional, very passionate about it. “He was in the best sense a good kid,” said his pastor, Barry Galyean. Everybody in his neighbourhood appears to have a story about how he would make a beeline to shake their hand, or offer to help them out by moving furniture or anything else that needed doing. He was a meticulous, friendly kid who made a point of always greeting people and asking them how they were doing. The night before the game, Lacy did what he always did: he washed and laid out his football clothes in a neat row.
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