Javon Britten
Age 18
Orland Park, Illinois
Never made it to trade school
He was a gifted poet — an “extra special” student who “preferred to keep how bright he was under wraps,” according to a teacher at Rich Central High School, where he was a senior.
His friends and family knew him as “Von” and described him as ambitious and hardworking. “He had so many dreams,” said his mother Nail Hobson. He hoped to become an electrician and had just been accepted to a trade school.
Javon Britten, 18, was shot at the Orland Park Mall on Jan. 21, 2019 in Orland Park, Illinois. He is the second victim of gun violence in his family; an uncle died in 1995.
