An 8-year-old football player was honored by his team after a high-speed police pursuit killed him last year
An 8-year-old football player was killed in a hit-and-run accident in San Deigo last year and his football team is now doing everything to remember him.
Malikai Orozco Romero was an 8-year-old Pop Warner football player with the San Diego Youth Aztecs. He wore number 37.
He was a talented young man, and now his team will do everything to remember number 37.
His team held a ceremony across from the field where he played at Montgomery High School, Orozco Romero’s number 37 jersey was framed and handed to his mother.
Next year, the team will wear patches with his number.
Both Malikai and his little brother Mason were killed in the accident.
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