KPRC 2 producer Michael Horton spoke with Braxton Coles, Jarvon’s grandfather, to discuss the status of the investigation and how the family is giving back to the community in Jarvon’s name.
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The 18-year-old had a 4.2 GPA and was a prolific member of their football team. He had plans to stay local, continuing his athletic and academic career at Lamar University in Beaumont. He took care of business on the field and in the classroom, and his teammates and friends had nothing but positive words to say about him. By all accounts, he was an All-American success story.In the wake of the tragic murder, there was an outpour of support from the football world and the Houston community.
Recently, at the start of the little league football season, Crash Out for Cause went to four different youth football organizations on the eastside, the Bengals, the Saints, the Pride and the Mustangs. We presented each one of those organizations with a check to sponsor a kid to be able to play football. We just, last Friday, in partnership with another nonprofit, IIoG, did a sponsorship for youth basketball with the Eastside Youth Basketball Organization.
We’re going to continue to do things like that. We’re going to present the scholarship to Houston Public Works. I worked for Houston Public Works, and that’s like another family. So, we are going to do a scholarship in his name to Houston Public Works, one to Channelview High School and one to North Shore High School. So, all of that’s going to be upcoming probably after the playoffs, and we just want to keep it going. We just want to show the kids that there is another way besides shooting.
But just as an aside, I got a I received a message the other day on Messenger from a mother in Georgia whose daughter was murdered the same way . I’m in close communications with another family in Georgia whose son, Daryus, was murdered in the same way that Jarvon was. And in talking to us, they created a foundation in Georgia, called DB2, that does the same things that we are doing with Crash Out for Cause.I don’t have a whole staff. I don’t have a bunch of people.
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