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East Palo Alto shooting victim
EAST PALO ALTO, Calif. —
A college wrestler studying to be a doctor was shot and killed Friday night in East Palo Alto as his father arrived from the east coast for a family visit.
Friends of San Francisco State student Mark Madden said the 20-year-old radiated happiness.
“Like that life is good, it’s all good,” said high school friend Gabe Ortiz.
That is until a drive-by shooting cut life short Friday night.
“You would just never expect anything like this to happen to someone like him,” said Ortiz.
Someone fired shots at Madden’s uncle’s home on Laurel Avenue in East Palo Alto, striking the young man as he approached the front door around five in the evening.
His father, Marquis Madden, got the news while traveling from Baltimore.
“I saved up all year to come out and see him and my other son in Richmond. And he kept saying, ‘Dad I can’t wait to see you to make you my lasagna.’ And I missed my flight, got stuck in Atlanta, and woke up to this,” said Marquis Madden.
The San Francisco State University junior who studied to be a doctor died on the front path before his father arrived.
Through tears, Marquis Madden struggled to come to grasp with what had happened saying, “
Straight A student. I don’t understand it. You guys took the wrong…you took the wrong person, man. You took the wrong person,” said Madden.
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