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“He made it all the way to college, and he can’t even walk across the stage to accept his diploma,” his mother said.
Four months ago, Edward Wade and his mother stopped at a store on Good Hope Road in Southeast D.C. to buy food when someone suddenly opened fire, killing him and injuring four other people.
Family friend Nia Eatmon helped organize a private graduation watch party for Christine.
“It’s very gratifying to know that his memory will last and that the school honored him in such a way,” she said.
In the midst of excruciating pain, Christine has a little comfort knowing Virginia Union University will honor her son with a mass communications degree Saturday.
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Clanton: The city has lost a second elected official to the coronavirus pandemic six months after the longtime mayor died of COVID-19. City Council member Sammy Wilson died Thursday while in a hospital where he was being treated for the illness caused by the new virus, WBRC-TV reports. A statement by Mayor Jeff Mims said the town of 8,800 people was thankful for Wilson’s service to the community. Council member Mary Mell Smith called Wilson’s death “a big loss.” “He had that big smile on his face every time you saw him,” she said. Wilson died about six months after Billy Joe Driver, who had served as mayor for 36 years before he died of COVID-19 in July. Mims was elected to replace Driver.
VUU student shot, killed in Washington D.C. By NBC12 Newsroom | January 25, 2021 at 7:16 PM EST - Updated January 25 at 11:15 PM
WASHINGTON, Va. (WWBT) - A Virginia Union University student was shot and killed in Washington D.C. on Monday.
Family told NBC Washington that 22-year-old Edward Wade, who was about to graduate from VUU, was shot and killed inside a market where he was picking up food while his mother waited outside.
“Edward was top of the line. You couldn’t get any better than him. He made a difference in his neighborhood,” Wade’s aunt Denise Wade Kirksey told NBC Washington.