Keith Allen Bledsoe
Age 17
Lexington, Kentucky
Always wanted to be a boxer
He graduated Operation Making a Change – a program designed to help troubled youth. He was ready to grow up, stay in school, be a good father to his new little girl, have a career – maybe in boxing.
He always liked boxing. Fighting professionally was a dream he was excited to pursue. His friends and family found his smile to be contagious; his laughter, infectious.
On June 26, 2018, Keith Allen Bledsoe, 17, known by friends as KB, was found killed on a neighborhood street in Lexington, Kentucky, with bullet casings surrounding him and a fatal gunshot wound to the head.
