A college student on the way home for his best friend’s funeral was killed in a car wreck.
Malik Cooper, a 20-year-old business student at Tuskegee University in Alabama, was driving to Atlanta when his car left the wet road and crashed, according to Channel 2 Action News.
Cooper, who wasn’t wearing a seatbelt, died from his injuries.
He was headed to the funeral of Marquez Montgomery, a sophomore football player at Mays High School who was shot in the head and killed Nov. 28.
The funeral was Monday.
Dontavious Montgomery, a cousin, was charged with murder in connection with the 15-year-old’s death.
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Cooper planned to be a pallbearer at Montgomery’s funeral.
His mother, Bridget Grimes, told Channel 2 the last thing she said to her son was not to say goodbye on the phone.
“I said, ‘Please don’t tell me bye bye.’ I said, ‘Tell me you will see me later.’ He said, ‘Yo, I will see you later, Momma.’ I said, ‘OK, baby.’ And that’s the last time I talked to him.”
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