Buddy Harrison, a boxing coach finest recognized for teaching his welterweight son Dusty Hernandez-Harrison, was fatally shot Saturday morning in Southeast Washington, in accordance with D.C. police and a spokesman for an upcoming boxing occasion.
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Boxing trainer Buddy Harrison shot dead in Southeast D.C.
Police recognized the capturing sufferer as Arthur Harrison Jr. However he was extensively often called Buddy, and a spokesman for the upcoming boxing occasion, Beltway Battles, confirmed that Buddy Harrison was the sufferer.
On Friday, Harrison posted an image on social media of him and his son, who’s scheduled to make his return to the ring at an occasion in Washington subsequent Saturday.
“I laced his gloves at two years outdated,” Harrison wrote within the put up. “I’m nonetheless lacing his gloves at 28 years outdated. I thank Jesus for the chance to take action.”
The image now carries a whole bunch of tributes to Harrison.
Police described the suspects Saturday as three males wearing black carrying handguns. Murder detectives mentioned they have been additionally looking for a white Kia Optima sedan with the Ohio license plate of JAU 3816 in reference to the capturing.
Harrison ran the Outdated College Boxing Health club in Hillcrest Heights, Md. A tribute posted to the health club’s Instagram web page described him as “father, servant, coach, mentor, comic and a job mannequin.”
“Please preserve the Harrison household and the Hernandez household in your prayers, and preserve the Outdated College household in your prayers,” the put up learn. “I believe if Buddy have been right here he would say to ensure you’re at your health club Monday, pray for these misplaced ones on the market who don’t know the Lord, and to like everybody.”
The health club itself was closed Sunday. Out entrance, a pair of boxing gloves and a bouquet of flowers have been tied to a railing.
Anthony Peterson, a boxer scheduled to combat within the Beltway Battles sequence, mentioned in an Instagram put up that he had been coaching with Harrison the day he was killed.
“Thanks for all of the help and love you gave me and my group after we had nowhere to go,” Peterson wrote. “The moments we spent within the health club earlier as we speak I’ll cherish these moments until the day I die.”
A mailbox in a small condo constructing on the block the place the capturing came about confirmed the title of Outdated College Boxing. Brenda Guiles, who lives within the constructing, mentioned she had recognized Harrison since transferring there over a decade in the past, and described his work gathering garments for homeless folks.
Guiles mentioned she had been sleeping Saturday morning when the capturing woke her up.
“It was too shut,” she mentioned. The door to the constructing had a bullet gap in it.
Dusty Hernandez-Harrison, who’s undefeated as knowledgeable after 35 bouts, had been inactive since his final combat in 2020. However he was scheduled to make a comeback on the 4,200-seat Leisure & Sports activities Area in Southeast Washington, as part of a combat sequence he has been concerned in as a promoter. The spokesman for the occasion mentioned no determination had been made about whether or not Hernandez-Harrison would nonetheless participate.
The daddy and son had been estranged for some time however had reconciled in 2019 after one other lengthy spell out of the ring for Hernandez-Harrison.
Buddy Harrison was himself a former boxer and frolicked in jail for armed theft, in accordance with a profile in James Madison College’s Second Probability Challenge, which tells the tales of previously incarcerated people who’ve gone on to contribute to their communities. He based the health club quickly after his son was born.
In a video posted to the Beltway Battles Instagram web page Sunday, Harrison compares the trajectory of his life to that of his son.
“I take a look at the place he’s at and the place I used to be at,” Harrison says. “At 20 years outdated I’m sitting within the penitentiary serving a 19-year jail sentence. And now I take a look at him and I’m like ‘wow, man.’ We at all times need higher for our kids. We would like our kids to do higher than we did. Properly he outdone me by a lot. Right here he’s, and I’m happening the journey with him.”