Zachary Lawrence Chambless
Age 17
Roswell, Georgia
Released balloons honor his jovial soul
Because of a seizure disorder and autism, he couldn’t speak, but he shared his “joy through his smile,” his mother, Kathryn Ballard, said.
He would smile brightly at anything that could fly. Balloons, flags, birds, bugs. He got so excited by them that his mother kept a helium tank in their home so she could blow up balloons for him at a moment’s notice.
Zachary Lawrence Chambless, 17, was accidentally shot and killed on the way to summer camp in the parking lot of a Mountain Motorsports store in Roswell, Georgia, on July 3, 2018. His city flew American flags and released 250 balloons to honor him.
