Marshall High School holds benefit for basketball player gunned down in Maywood driveway

MAYWOOD, In poor health. (WLS) — Marshall Excessive College is internet hosting a profit basketball sport Friday to boost cash for a reward to search out Dede Rainey’s killer.

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The 22-year-old star basketball participant was killed in July. She was in her automobile within the driveway of her Maywood household house in the midst of the afternoon when a person walked as much as her an opened hearth. Her mom witnessed the taking pictures, parked simply across the nook.

“Once I heard the gunshots I jumped out of my automobile. I began working in direction of her, she was working in direction of me saying, Momma, I been shot, I been shot,” mentioned Margo Rainey.

She has no concept who he was or why anybody would need to damage her daughter. She didn’t get an outline of the gunman.

“I used to be devastated, devastated. I lower my trip quick and got here again for the providers,” mentioned Dorothy Gaters, Marshall basketball coach.

Simply 4 years earlier Rainey was chosen most precious participant on Marshall Excessive College’s state championship basketball group. Her twin sister Miyanda additionally performed on that group.

“It is robust. It hurts. This can be a totally different sort of ache. I by no means felt something like this earlier than,” mentioned Miyanda Rainey.

Maywood police mentioned they’ve made little progress discovering the gunman who killed Rainey. That is why the college is placing on a profit basketball sport. Coach Gaters, the winningest highschool coach in state historical past, has invited quite a few women and men alumni again to Marshall’s gymnasium to play within the sport. A number of of them have performed professionally.

“All of them needed to do one thing to assist,” she mentioned.

“I am struggling to determine who I’m as a result of she was part of me and he or she saved me in a secure area. So it has been onerous with out Dede.” Stated Tyran Patterson, boyfriend.

Everybody concerned within the sport, the gamers coaches and referees, is donating their time. The ticket gross sales all going to a reward fund to attempt to discover the killer.

The household can be elevating cash for a scholarship fund in Dede Rainey’s title.

Maywood police say they’ve made little progress find whoever killed Rainey. Organizers of tonight’s profit sport are hoping that with sufficient reward cash, somebody will come ahead with data.