Submitted photos of Kris Mikell playing basketball for MWMS.

A memorial event for Kristopher Mickell, 15, has been planned by his friends and teachers at Maricopa Unified School District.

In what is planned as a private event Wednesday, after the final bell Wednesday at Maricopa High School (around 12:30 p.m.) students will walk from MHS down Honeycutt Avenue to Maricopa Wells Middle School, where Kris had been a student. There will be a balloon release at the MWMS campus.

Participants are asked to wear red and bring black and gray balloons.

Kris was living in Phoenix when he was stabbed to death Tuesday. A suspect was arrested Wednesday.

Raquel Hendrickson
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Raquel, a.k.a. Rocky, is a sixth-generation Arizonan who spent her formative years in the Missouri Ozarks. After attending Temple University in Philadelphia, she earned a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University and has been in the newspaper business since 1990. She has been a sports editor, general-assignment reporter, business editor, arts & entertainment editor, education reporter, government reporter and managing editor. After 16 years in the Verde Valley-Sedona, she moved to Maricopa in 2014. She loves the outdoors, the arts, great books and all kinds of animals.
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