I believe he had actually been friends with one brother, Bryan, although my spelling might be off on that. The father of Kendrick came out and said that they had recently been in a fight on a bus before his death, at the time it was rumored it was over a girl. But as the truth tends to do, it came out that it was almost a year prior and on a team bus. Bryan was peeing in a bottle when Kendrick shoved him messing around and he got pee on himself, which lead to a tussle and them both not being allowed to ride back on the bus. And they had, by all accounts made up after. They weren’t close, but IIRC, they weren’t on bad terms, according to classmates.

I couldn’t believe FSU pulled his scholarship. He had no legal charges, and had turned down other scholarships to attend there. I really feel that was unfair. The lady from the NAACP who initially helped investigate the story, and eventually left her role due to feeling the NAACP was ignoring the reality of evidence, even went to bat for him at a hearing at FSU. However, it was noted that the lawyer for Kendrick’s family, Benjamin Crump, frequented the campus often, and is also part of the reason they rescinded their scholarship offer.