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SAN PABLO, Calif. – An East Bay community came together Friday night to celebrate an 8th-grade graduation that was both a joyous and poignant moment in their lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Students at Caliber Beta Academy in San Pablo walked across the stage to receive their diplomas without their beloved English Language Arts teacher, Latetia Bobo, who was tragically killed in a mass shooting three months ago. \\<\/p>\n
However, her family and students ensured her legacy was a part of the ceremony.<\/p>\n
Turning grief into purpose <\/p>\n
The backstory:<\/p>\n
Bobo\u2019s life was cut short on March 7<\/a> when she was shot at a downtown Oakland nightclub.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to authorities, two men exchanged gunfire, and Bobo was struck when one of the men fell while bullets from his rifle sprayed the crowd.\u00a0<\/p>\n Three months later, her family is turning their profound grief into a determination to carry on the immense passion she had for helping others.<\/p>\n “She was excited about everything. She was extremely, extremely passionate,” her sister, Lavonia Bobo, said. “She would give her all in everything.”<\/p>\n ‘Be stubbornly determined to do good’ <\/p>\n At the graduation ceremony, Bobo\u2019s belief in the power of education lived on through her students.\u00a0<\/p>\n Classmates demonstrated their love for their late teacher through the graduation caps and stoles they wore.<\/p>\n On the day before graduation, students were also gifted bracelets bearing the words that Bobo lived by: “Be stubbornly determined to do good and do it for Ms. Bobo.”<\/p>\n During the ceremony, two students studying performing arts were awarded scholarships from a non-profit organization that Bobo co-founded.<\/p>\n Bobo’s brother-in-law, Keith Norman, shared a powerful message directed at the graduating class as they move on to high school.<\/p>\n “Whatever this experience has been, whatever impact this made… use all that impact to drive you towards being different, being positive, [and] making change in this world,” Norman said.<\/p>\n Beyond her dedication to the classroom, Bobo’s family remembers her as a multi-talented force of nature.\u00a0<\/p>\n She was a gifted musician, a television scriptwriter, and an avid world traveler who lived her 33 years with adventurous courage and conviction.<\/p>\n As the community heals, her family hopes her students remember the strength she instilled in them.<\/p>\n “While tragedy may happen, there can also be beauty from it,” said Bobo’s sister, LaShontae Norman. “Focus on the things that bring strength.”<\/p>\n What you can do:<\/p>\n If you would like to support the Latetia Bobo Elise Bobo Scholarship Award, you can do so at http:\/\/bit.ly\/ellerevefundraiser.<\/p>\n Amber Lee is a reporter with KTVU. Email Amber at Amber.Lee@Fox.com or text\/leave a message at 510-599-3922. Follow her on Facebook @AmberKTVU, Instagram @AmberKTVU or Twitter @AmberKTVU.<\/p>\n The Source: Interviews with Latetia’s family and her friend Brianna McKoy\u00a0<\/p>\n Education<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a>San Pablo<\/a>Oakland<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN PABLO, Calif. – An East Bay community came together Friday night to celebrate an 8th-grade graduation that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,1184,392,2042,15,100,143,145,144,11006,1181],"class_list":["post-349956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-ca","tag-contra-costa-county","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-education","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-san-pablo","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}