The family holds a monument to honor teen who were killed in double shootings and should graduate this week

Amite – Jarvis Brister was killed in a double shootout in the city of Amite. The von Brister family says that the 17-year-old was a good child who was just a few weeks before the end with a full ride scholarship.

“He wasn't thinking about what happened. He was only in the wrong place at the wrong time,” said Schynell Thomas, the mother of Jarvis.

“In my understanding, he was out here and played basketball. A fight broke out and his friend was shot on the other side of the street,” she said.

“He tried to run to save his friend and then he was hit back in his head,” said.

Brister wanted to complete St. Helena this Friday.

“I only wish you could have been here. You know Friday to go this stage. He was happy: Boarding the stage,” she said.

He also played football in the high school.

“Jarvis was a funny, loving child. He played video games. He loves Dirt Bikes and was in sports. He had a whole four -year scholarship at Virginia University in Lynchburg.”

Where he was killed, friends and family members placed candles and flowers on the spot.

“You have to understand that he would graduate on Friday, and now I have to try to bury him on Saturday,” said his stepfather Vondale Thomas Sr.

“He was full of energy, only life that was taken too early with a senseless act of violence, you know,” he said.

The police arrested four people in connection with his murder and 18-year-old Nastaja Williams, the 18-year-old Parisian Brumfield, 19-year-old Gwendolyn Alexander and the 17-year-old city in Pharell.

Brista's stepfather says he wishes that this would be handled differently.

“This is something that a conversation between the parents could have avoided because I am pretty sure that the parents who did this to me also do my wife and we could have really put on and discussed, and we could have simply named it in the bud,” he said.

Both the mother and the stepfather of Brister plan to work to fight against this increase in youth violence.