Posted at: 11/04/2009 11:33 PM | WHEC.com
Updated at: 11/05/2009 5:27 AM
By: Linzi Sheldon

Vigil remembers Rush-Henrietta student

It was an emotional night at Rush-Henrietta High School, as friends and family of Keyon Robinson gathered in front of the school in his memory.

"He touched so many hearts," Eric Ross, a friend of Robinson's, said. "It's ridiculous that he had to go so early."

"I don't know what I'm going to do without him," Kenny Scott, another friend, said at the candlelight vigil.

Seventeen-year-old Keyon Robinson was hit by a car Saturday night on Lehigh Station Road.

Police say he was wearing dark clothing and the driver, an off-duty Rochester police officer, simply didn't see him.

Friends say Robinson, a sophomore at Rush-Henrietta High School, loved music and loved life.

"He was like an angel to us," Scott said. "He was... I can't even explain it, really."

Robinson was walking near the curb on Lehigh Station Road when he was hit. The shock is still fresh for his mother.

"This photo was taken ten minutes prior to the accident," Robinson's mother, Nickole Rayam, said.

She says the driver should have seen her son.

"This is what Keyon had on at the time of the accident," she said, holding up a picture of her son. "This bright-skinned child with this bright hoodie."

"We just pray that he's looking down at us right now and we love him, we love him," Robinson's aunt Regina McFadden said.

Family and friends ended the vigil across the street-- where that car ended Robinson's life.

"I know where he's at right now, and I know how he's living in the afterlife," Robinson's friend Tarquin Caldwell said.

"They say the good die young, so I guess he had to go," Ross said.

Police say there will be no charges filed against the driver of the car that hit Robinson.

His funeral is scheduled for Friday morning.

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