Touted 14-year-old prospect with offers from Illini, Mizzou murdered by gunfire at local gathering

An awful and silly disaster snuffed out the life of a rising football prospect way too early this previous end of the week.

Jaylon McKenzie was going to a post-prom local gathering in Venice, Illinois, Saturday night when a battle broke out.  As he was endeavoring to leave the gathering and evade the tumult, gunfire rang out and McKenzie was hit by a stray projectile; subsequent to being taken to a nearby clinic, McKenzie passed on.

The young fellow was only 14 years of age.

"My infant had quite recently such a promising future, and for his life to simply finish in only a silly slaughtering with another person that had no respect forever," McKenzie's mom, Sukena Gunner, revealed to NBC offshoot KSDK. "Just petition — supplication is everything I can truly look for trouble now."

An eighth grader in the study hall and guarded back/running back/wide collector on the turf, McKenzie effectively held football grant offers from Illinois and Missouri.  In November of a year ago, Sports Illustrated recorded McKenzie as one of the six youngsters who will run the future in games.

In that piece, the Belleville, Ill., middle school schooler said making the NFL is the thing that he needs to achieve and that he would like to follow in the strides of Adoree Jackson.  Jackson, himself a Belleville local who played his school football at USC and is currently a cornerback for the Tennesse Titans, took to Twitter to grieve McKenzie's passing.