LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The household of a 17-year-old killed final 12 months accepted his diploma on the final day of faculty for the Clark County Faculty District.
Keanu Enright died on Oct. 16 inside a house on the intersection of Bramble Court docket and Greenhurst Highway close to Alta Drive and Rainbow Boulevard.
“The last sent months have basically been hell. It’s a struggle every single day. To have the support system is great,” Thomas Enright, III, stated.
Keanu Enright was taking part in video video games with three different teenagers when a 15-year-old pulled a ghost gun and shot him, in accordance with police. 8 Information Now was the one TV station in court docket final November for the shooter’s sentencing.
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“We’re all here to honor my son, and he’s not able to be here. This kid is going to be out in a year or two years. He gets to have children and grandchildren, gets to go to college, get a job. My kid don’t get anything, and we struggle every single day,” Thomas Enright, III, stated.
Keanu Enright acquired a web page devoted to him within the Bonanza Excessive Faculty yearbook.
“He liked hip-hop, and he loved his friends,” his father stated. Thomas Enright, III additionally picked up his son’s diploma on Friday. “It’s going to hang on the wall,” he stated.
“I feel a little guilty. I shouldn’t be holding this, he should,” stated Keanu Enright’s brother, Thomas Enright, IV, who’s a U.S. Marine stationed in Camp Pendleton. He got here to Las Vegas to stroll up on stage when his brother’s title was referred to as in the course of the commencement ceremony.
The brothers have been solely a 12 months aside and Thomas Enright, IV, stated the ache of his brother’s demise has been an excessive amount of to bear at instances.
“He always had jokes. Never ending. New stuff every day. I just don’t laugh like I used to,” Thomas Enright, IV, stated.
Keanu’s title shall be referred to as subsequent Thursday on the Orleans Lodge and On line casino in the course of the college’s commencement ceremony. Keanu had plans to hitch the U.S. Navy.
The 15-year-old who shot Keanu was sentenced to the Spring Mountain Youth Jail. As soon as he’s launched, his information shall be sealed.
