Former Glades Central football standout Don’Kevious Johnson was remembered by teammates Saturday, hours after he was shot and killed in Daytona Beach.
Don’Kevious Johnson in 2011 (Post file photo)
The Bethune-Cookman University student and linebacker on the Wildcats’ football team was at a party at a golf course clubhouse when 23-year-old Lamont Postell Jr. pulled a gun and shot three people.
Johnson died after being taken to Halifax Medical Center. The other two victims, both Bethune-Cookman students, remain hospitalized.
Postell turned himself into police Saturday afternoon.
“That was my brother. His mother was my mother. My mother was his mother,” said Robert Way, a former teammate of Johnson’s at Glades Central. “We were teammates at high school and at Bethune-Cookman.
“Everywhere I went he went, and vice versa. I cherish all of the memories, so I can’t even talk about just one. I love that dude.”
Johnson, who had recently turned 23, was an All-Area first team selection as a Raiders senior in 2011. He recorded a team-high 112 tackles that season and helped lead Glades Central to the regional finals. The Raiders played in the state championship game during Johnson’s junior season in 2010.
Johnson began his college career at Alabama State before transferring to Bethune-Cookman.
