XENIA — A community honored an 11-year-old boy killed in a house fire in December on Thursday.
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The Xenia Wee Bucs Football and Cheer and the Xenia Browns Backers presented a jersey to memorialize 11-year-old Kevin Jenkins Jr. during the intermission of the 7th and 8th grade Warner Middle School football games.
According to a social media post from Xenia Athletics, Jenkins’ No. 22 jersey will be displayed at the Buffalo Wild Wings in Xenia.
Jenkins was a sixth-grade student at Warner Middle School.
He died in a house fire in Clinton County on Dec. 5, 2023, according to a previous News Center 7 report.
Family members said Jenkins’ great-grandmother was killed in the fire, along with three cats and a dog.
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