Dion Thompson, who was shot and killed in downtown Austin last week, is remembered as the life of the party - a loving son, brother, friend, and more.
"As a mother, the relationship you have with your son is one of the biggest blessings in life that a mother could have," Christy Thompson, Dion's mother, said.
"We'd be around A&M football games, and he'd always joke about wearing all UT gear just to see what the people would say to him," Shelton Bond, Dion's best friend, said.Dion spent a lot of time at Shelton's house. "It's so hard, I want to honor his death as a hero, I want to remember that he was a hero, he had courage, but I also wish that I would do more education about gun violence and how serious it is even in Austin," Christy said.
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