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Damir Young-Hunt

Age 18

Gary, Indiana

He’ll rap and dance no more

The Calumet New Tech High School student was known for spontaneously rapping and dancing, energetically spitting bars and busting moves. His favorite artists were Scrilla King, Drama B, Infamous D, Chief Keef, Wiz Khalifa, and Trina.

Friends of “DayDay” admired him for being “smart and driven” and described him as “goofy and so much fun to be around.” His girlfriend said his love was “truly one in a million” and that he was “an angel in disguise.”

On April 15, 2018, Damir Young-Hunt, 18, was shot in Gary, Indiana. He died at the scene from a gunshot wound.

   

By Mary Claire Molloy · Age 18
Meet the Reporters

More than 80 musicians

Taveon Donte' Brooks

Basketball point guard, would-be rapper

Raydale Hill

Can no longer create his music

Elijah Foster

Dope Boy Gang. One less member.

Vicente Valero III

He was a modern Renaissance man

Beverly McBride

Purple hair, just like her dad

Ricky Ryon Willis III

YouTuber was destined for great things

Ramon Enriquez Barragan

Born, raised, died in Garden City

Robert Spencer Biggers Jr.

Local rapper who loved his familyi

Trevon Fareed Richardson

College, football, a scholarship. All lost.

James Claggion IV

Left hometown for fame in Atlanta

Zachary Mulford

Summer job turns into winter grief

Bryan Portales Escalante

Phone, wallet, shoes and, life — gone

Darion Gordon

Sixteen years erased by one bullet

Ke’Andre Johnson

Cut off after only one verse

Kaileigh Lin Collier

Was “more beautiful than she knew”

Carnandez A. Davis

New family never to be whole

Taylor Hayes

A star on her karaoke machine

Arthur Roger Holloway III

His obituary ran in two states

Montrell Anthony Mouzon

His dream of witnessing motocross shattered

Brandon Nash Hammett

‘The music master’ killed before college