Fifteen-year-old Roy Stuart lived with his grandmother Brenda in a South Oak Cliff Apartment complex and had dreams of playing football professionally.
However, last week, his dreams were cut short when an unknown assailant shot him in the head in cold blood. Sadly, the high school freshman was the latest in a tragic list of 146 murders in Dallas in the past year, a statistic that is up 25 percent since last year.
While the motive of the killer is unknown, we do know that Stuart was killed while his sweet grandmother Brenda was at the grocery store.
Brenda adopted her grandson when he was just an infant since his parents were in and out of prison and unable to care for him. Brenda showed WFAA Dallas a photo of Stuart, saying, “This is when I brought him home. When I tell you perfect, he was a perfect baby. That was my heart.”
“Somebody asked me, ‘How is your baby doing?’” she recalled. “‘I guess he’s doing all right. What’s supposed to be wrong with him?’ [Then] she said, ‘I heard he got shot.’” Brenda dropped her groceries and ran to Roy’s side at the hospital, where he was placed on life support. Roy remained on life support for three days, until his family made the difficult decision to take him off.
That was the moment when Roy became a hero for four family desperately awaiting life-saving organ transplants. Roy’s family donated his liver, lungs, kidney and heart to others in need. “He has a good heart, and it will live on in somebody else,” a heartbroken Brenda told WFAA. “He was always trying to help somebody when he was alive, and now that he’s gone, he’s still helping people.”
Roy now lives on in the four people he saved, but his memory will live on in his grandmother’s and loved ones’ hearts forever.
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[Featured Image Credit: WFAA Dallas]
Murdered Football Star Becomes Organ Donor Saving Four Lives is an article from: LifeDaily