Minford High School is in mourning after the death of a senior student. The school postponed the evening’s sporting events, and instead, classmates and their parents gathered in the school’s gym to comfort each other and offer prayers for the family of Ajay Stiles.
Ajay’s family said the boy died from complications of a seizure. Stiles was a member of the band, but was unable to perform. A loved one told SCDN that he had been recovering from surgery “to correct scar tissue and had built up fluid on his brain.”
Ajay’s father reached out to SCDN to further clarify. He said, “The seizure caused swelling of the brain, and then lack of oxygen caused brain trauma and then death”.
Still, community members remembered him as a “sweet, polite, brave, and positive young man.”
The photographer who took his senior pictures said he asked if he could bring a Bible along to use as a prop in his senior pictures. In a Facebook post, Kourtney Sherman said she hadn’t thought much about it until she went back to look at the photos, “In the picture of the Bible, my camera was focused in on the “14” and the verses that followed. John 14:1-4.
“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.”