Jason Rivera, 13, was a student at Lebanon Middle School. He died Tuesday after being shot in a parking lot.
Carmen Martinez started the“He was only 13 years old,” she wrote. “Most of you that knew him knows that what happened to him was a tragedy. Our family is grieving. This is the worst feeling a family has to go through.”
She said he was a “wonderful young man” that was respectful, smart and stayed out of trouble, and he loved to play football and basketball, and was very loved by many. Lebanon County District Attorney Pier Hess Graf described Rivera as a good kid at a Thursday morning press conference asking for the public’s help to solve the case. She said the teen liked sneakers, video games and drawing and was excited to turn 16 in a few years so he could drive.As of 4:25 p.m. Thursday, 58 people had donated $3,325 toward a $15,000 goal.
Police were called Tuesday night to investigate reports of gunshots in a parking lot at Vine Street and Park Avenue when they found Rivera shortly before 9 p.m. He was shot multiple times and later died at the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Derry Township. Graf said at the press conference that details about the manner of the boy’s death are not being released at the request of the family. She said it was not a random act of violence. Members of the media were not permitted to ask further questions about the case at the press conference.
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