'I'm the man, the coach I am today because of him.' Richard Donnell Hamilton was killed by an alleged road rage shooter Wednesday evening while exiting I-65 at County Line Road.
His cousin, Damon Lee, and their friend Darryl Smith Sr. say Hamilton's death is a major loss to the community he served.“Year after year he coached intercity youth," Lee said about his cousin."Everything he knew about football he taught."Hamilton founded the Indy Youth Steelers, a youth football team. He also helped start the Tarkington Teen Work Crew, which is a program out of the MLK Center that empowers youth to become leaders.
“This became kind of the home of the Indy Steelers – where their fiscal agent for grants they would get – we would help them get new uniforms – he and I are a lot like in the sense – if you wanted to play, we would figure out a way,” MLK Center Executive Director Allison Luthe told WRTV. Detectives believe the shooting was related to road rage. They're currently searching for a silver or gray sedan style car with dark tinted windows. No suspects have been identified.“To be taken away from us by such a violent way – a senseless way – especially how hard we fought to keep the kids away from violence and off the streets,” Smith Sr.
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