MADISON COUNTY, IL. (THECOUNT) — Jaylon McKenzie has been identified as the Central Junior High student shot dead at a house party in Venice, IL on Saturday night.
East St. Louis School District released a statement Sunday saying several of their students were shot after gunfire erupted Saturday night in Venice.
According to sources, McKenzie, an eighth-grader in Belleville, was recently featured in Sports Illustrated as one of their top six teen athletes in the country.
The district says that few details are clear at this point and request space and time for them to appropriately grieve and come to terms with this latest impact of violence. They will provide crisis teams at their schools in the upcoming days, reports Fox2Now.
No further information on the deadly incident were provided by officials Sunday morning.
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Geo quick facts: Madison County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it had a population of 269,282. The county seat is Edwardsville, and its largest city is Granite City. Madison County is part of the Metro-East region of the St. Louis, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area – Wikipedia.
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