Football team cut from playoffs after parent charged with shooting coach

By Daniel Wu
October 24, 2023 at 5:00 a.m. EDT

Shaquille Latimore, a youth football coach from St. Louis, had faced the ire of unhappy families before. He normally shrugs off the parents angry at a roster decision or lobbying for their children’s playing time, he told The Washington Post. And the disagreements, exasperating as some were, never went further than that, he said.

Then, during an early October practice in a St. Louis park, Latimore got into an argument with a father whose son Latimore had benched in a previous game, he said. It ended in gunfire.

Daryl Brian Clemmons, the father, shot Latimore several times because he was upset about his son not starting on the team, according to Latimore and a probable cause statement for Clemmons.

“I’m honestly still in disbelief,” Latimore, who was seriously injured, told The Post.

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