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    Georgia college wrestler shot, killed at party

    A 20-year-old student who grew up in the Atlanta area and was a member of his wrestling team in high school and college was shot and killed while attending a party in southern Georgia.

    Stevenson Derival was killed this past weekend in an off-campus party in Mount Vernon, Ga., home to Brewton-Parker College where he was a wrestler.

    Stevenson Derival
    Mount Vernon Police Chief Calvin Burns says at least 200 people were at the party and fled when gunfire rang out early Sunday morning. Derival was hit and later died.

    No one has been arrested in Derival's death. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is assisting Mount Vernon police in solving the crime.

    Born in Haiti, Stevenson Derival was a 2015 graduate of Towers High in DeKalb County in suburban Atlanta, where he was on the wrestling team and participated in track and field. Derival continued his involvement in those two sports at Brewton-Parker College. The junior wrestled at 174 pounds for the private, four-year Christian school located approximately 165 miles southeast of Atlanta. He was majoring in criminal justice.

    Within hours of the fatal shooting of the student-athlete, Brewton-Parker College president Steve Echols posted this message on the school's Facebook page.

    "Please pray for the family of Stevenson Derival who passed away early this morning in a tragic off-campus incident. We are all shocked and broken-hearted to see a friend and student whose life held such promise to be cut short in such a devastating way."

    Demonte Parker, a fellow student at Brewton-Parker, said this of his classmate.

    "(He) was one of the best wrestlers. He had a good spirit, a good heart."

    Brewton-Parker College has a student enrollment of approximately 800. The school's wrestling program and other sports compete in NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics).
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