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PINE BLUFF, Ark. - Students and faculty at White Hall High School said they are heartbroken after an 18-year-old student was shot and killed, less than 24 hours before he was set to graduate.
Ben Redix was a senior at WHHS before he died Thursday night. According to police, 17-year-old Jamari Douglas is behind bars in connection to the shooting. The police report shows it happened in North Little Rock.
It is being investigated as an accidental shooting.
According to the report, Douglas told NLRPD they were in the car as he was stripping down the gun. Douglas said at that point, it accidentally went off and hit Redix, who was in the seat in front of him.
Redix played football and ran track at White Hall as a student. His head football coach, Ryan Mallett, said in all his years of football - whether playing or coaching - he has never experienced anything like this.
“He was actually the first kid I talked to,” Mallett said in an interview Friday. “He said from day one, ‘Coach, whatever you need me to do, I got it.’”
Mallett said R...
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