The small town of Trion, Georgia, has just under 2,000; many say it's known for its tight-knit community, where a loss to one is a loss to all. So, when news spread that a young teen, Juancea Hunter, had suddenly and unexpectedly taken his life, the gravity of his death was felt far and wide.

"I hate that, in those moments, he felt like he couldn’t reach out to anybody–that he didn’t have anybody–because that’s just not true,” Blaine Woodley, coach and mentor of Hunter, says. “I just wish that he would've picked up the phone or he would've tried to find me before he did something like this…It hurt a lot of hearts around here and definitely impacted a lot of people and people he didn't even realize cared.”

Woodley says he’d known Hunter for years, and they’d grab dinner after baseball pra

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