JACKSONVILLE The name is Jacoby Joshua Wright. Shaun Wade knew him well.
The case number is 857597, and Wade doesn t want that to be all there is for people who didn t.
There is so much more to know about Jacoby Wright, Wade insists; so much more that inspires, motivates and even now, five years after his death, evokes laughter in Ohio State s star cornerback.
But none of those qualities are listed anywhere in Case No. 857597.
To all who didn t truly know him, and few did Wade and a small circle of friends called him Coby for short Wright is indeed a number now as one of 113 homicides in Jacksonville from 2015. The hard facts are these: a Florida Highway Patrol officer noticed the 17-year-old s arm extending from brush that was obscuring his body on a dirt road adjacent to a dead-end street on Jacksonville s Northside, shortly after 3 a.m. on Dec. 20, 2015.