One year later: Mother of Ja'Shawn Poirier reflects on deadly Lamar High School shooting

The mother of a teenage boy who was shot and killed at a high school in North Texas is still grieving a year later.

He was shot and killed on campus just weeks before his 17th birthday. Family, friends, and educators gathered at the high school Wednesday night to remember Poirier.

“Forever sixteen” is what family, friends, and classmates said in unison as they released balloons in his favorite color, green. The memories from that day are still fresh. From tragedy, though, they’ve tried to create some good. A plaque now hangs on the wall inside the school as a reminder of Poirier. A scholarship was also created in his honor.

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