A grieving mother received a custom jersey from her son's favorite basketball team, marked with his last name and signed by Wildcats coach John Calipari.
CONNECTTWEETLINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMOREWEST MEMPHIS, Ark. — Tabatha Vail took a seat inside Mi Pueblo Mexican restaurant and slowly glanced over the chips and salsa resting in front of her on the table. She didn't have much of an appetite. She lost it a month earlier when her teenage son, Taylon Vail, was senselessly killed by stray bullets in a drive-by shooting while sleeping at his grandmother’s house.
By the time the grieving mom returned to her table from the bathroom, it had been completely cleared, and placed in front of her was an envelope marked with a very familiar logo: The University of Kentucky, her son's favorite basketball team.Inside was a custom, blue Kentucky jersey marked with her son's last name and his favorite number. On the front, it was signed by Wildcats coach John Calipari.
"I was trying not to get tears on the jersey," Vail said. "It wasn't until then that I realized why she asked me to go wash my hands. It was pristine. It's so special." It wasn't until last Friday that the gifts from Kentucky would become public, when Tabatha Vail made a guest appearance at Academies of West Memphis High School's freshman day.
Going separate waysAnd when that moment comes, the Vail family hopes to go its own way too, but not without making a trip to Lexington for a Kentucky game first. Vail doesn't expect that when she sees the UK logo printed on the floor, or brings the jersey into the arena, it will bring any more closure to her tragic circumstances.
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