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Loss of son gives Hagan a new outlook on coaching

Related Topics: Darian Hagan, Suicide prevention

“Not a day goes by that I don’t think of him,” Darian Hagan said of his son DeVaughn at a 2013 benefit for suicide prevention. “He was just like me in every way — his smile, his laugh, his big head.”

In November of 2010, DeVaughn Levy-Hagan tragically took his own life inside of his dorm room at Garden City Community College, where he had been working to improve his grades and earn a scholarship to the University of Colorado.

“I will always remember his kindness, his big heart and his smile,” Hagan said. “I will always remember DeVaughn Levy-Hagan.