One of his teachers at Glades Day School called him one of her favorite students, whose "beautiful bright eyes and handsome smile lit up the room."

At about 2 a.m., he called a friend near his Wellington home and said he was going to do heroin, police reported. He overdosed at the friend's home within a few hours, police said. Although his friends rushed him to the hospital, they couldn't save him.

He was 24.