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Pulse Nightclub Victim, Akyra Murray Remembered By High School Through Scholarship In Her Name

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A Philadelphia basketball standout is remembering her teammate and mentor Akyra Murray. The youngest victim of the 2016 Pulse Nightclub massacre in Orlando.

A scholarship in Murray's name was awarded at the fourth annual Young Educated Athletes brunch at West Catholic Preparatory School on Sunday.

Murray's West Catholic teammate Amiyah Edney-Holmes received the $250 grant in her mentor's name.

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"She was a mentor to me, I looked up to her a lot in a lot of aspects, not just on the court, but off of it as well," Edney-Holmes said

Murray graduated third in the class of 2016 and was on her way to college when she was shot and killed during a mass shooting at the club.

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