Bandmates remember 14-year-old horn player killed in car crash. 'We're here for you.'

In the stands of the Joe Brown Stadium in New Orleans East on Friday evening, the Abramson Sci Academy marching band chanted one name over and over again. "Damiri Eves," the Abramson Sci Academy musicians said as their classmates below played football against Sarah T. Reed . "We're here for you." Damiri Eves, a 14-year-old sophomore at Abramson, was supposed to play with the band at the game that night. He was a baritone horn player. His older brother is a tuba player in the band too. But earlier that day, Damiri Eves was riding a gas-powered scooter when he was tragically struck and killed by a pickup truck at the intersection of Norman Mayer Avenue and Gentilly Boulevard, the New Orleans Police Department said. "It's hard to process.

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