The life and legacy of Lavel Davis Jr. will live on forever in his home state of South Carolina. In a bill brought before the South Carolina General Assembly in February, it was proposed that the 9.6 mile stretch of Highway 78 in Dorchester County be named the “Lavel ‘Tyler’ Norman Davis, Jr. Memorial Highway.”
Davis Jr., a native of Ridgeville, tragically lost his life in the campus shooting at the University of Virginia last November. He was one of three UVA football players killed as a bus returned from a class field trip to Washington, DC. Teammates Devin Chandler and D’Sean Perry were the other two lives lost, and a fourth player — Mike Hollins Jr. — was shot in the back and recovered from his injuries.
