Coach Nell was the kind of neighborhood hero that you will find in every city in America, if you are willing to see. The kind of person who reaches beyond himself, beyond his family. Who reaches above the expectations the world has for someone like him.
For almost 20 years, Coach Nell trained a generation of boys to expect something of themselves, something more than what the world expects for them – here in a city where one-fourth of all homicide victims are younger than 21, where the first three people killed in the new year were teens.
How could this man be swept away by the one thing he spent a lifetime trying to stop? One reporter went back to his city to find out. Visit the link in our bio to read more.