Mikel Tranell Gilchrist
Age 18
Sanford, Florida
He dreamed big. He lost all.
The photo of him in his cap and gown shows a proud young man who had graduated from high school a year ahead of his class, hoping to follow in his brother’s footsteps and join the Army.
He loved his family and had a personality “too good” for the world, one person commented.
Mikel-Clarence Tranell Gilchrist was shot on Dec. 19, 2018, two blocks from his home in Sanford, Florida. He died on the way to Central Florida Regional Hospital. His mother appealed on Twitter for help paying for his funeral “(a)s we had no life insurance.” He was 18.
