Life

Billy the Kid

Billy was always a kid at heart. That is why it hurt so much when he was taken away. Billy Rice was born in 1983, much like the rest of the kids in my class. I met Billy in the 4th grade. He had just transferred in from out of town. We went to Saint Patrick’s elementary and then proceeded on to Holy Trinity Catholic Middle School. Billy and I developed quite a relationship through all of the years together in school. He was a great athlete and we both were always captains on the playground teams. I have to mention we had one of the fiercest rivalries when it came down to being squared off against one another. This is what exactly brought us to be such great friends. We later would team up on our middle school teams to basically dominate every field or court we stepped on. I would never have guessed back then that Billy would get distracted and ultimately pay for it. It was late March, 2000, and Billy had just come by my house to shoot some hoops in the back yard...