HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A 16-year-old boy shot and killed in a drive-by shooting on Monday was honored in a vigil Friday evening. Marcus Cherry was one of three people shot on a front porch at a Sunnyside apartment complex at Barberry and Ferdinand St. His two friends that were shot survived. No one has been arrested.
"He was a good kid. Special. An aspiring basketball player," his mother, Alexise Voice, cried. She chose to donate his heart to save someone else's life, but his death has left her with a broken heart.
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She's now struggling to pay for his funeral. His family called him "Lil' Marcus" because his father, also named Marcus, was killed several years ago.
"Stop the violence," Voice cried.
A GoFundMe account has been set up to help the family pay for funeral costs.