10-year-old fatally shot at NJ high school football game to have park renamed after him

Micah "Dew" Tennant's name will not be forgotten in Atlantic City. 

At the viewing for the 10-year-old, who was fatally shot during a Pleasantville-Camden high school football game on November 15, Atlantic City mayor Marty Small Sr. announced a city park would be refurbished and renamed after him, according to a report. Tennant passed away five days after being shot and just hours before the rescheduled game.

The park is in the 800 block of Maryland Avenue in the Back Maryland neighborhood where Tennant lived, according to the report. Small described it as being in "disrepair."

“We’re going to make that playground a place Dew could be proud of,” he said. “We’re going to make it a true community place.”

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According to the report, so many people showed up to the New Shiloh Baptist Church that the viewing time had to be extended. The funeral included letters from members of the community offering their condolences.

Six people were arrested in connection to the shooting, which also injured the intended target, 27-year-old Ibn Abdullah, and 15-year-old who was grazed by a bullet. The shooter, Alvin Wyatt, 31, from Atlantic City, has been charged with murder. Abdullah was one of the people charged, as he had a gun on his person at the time of the shooting.

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