NEW YORK -- He hears it all the time -- that he's a role model. His friends tell him. Strangers tell him. And on Monday, a group of Major League Baseball players even told him.
But Chris Singleton isn't sure.
"That's what people keep saying. I don't know if I'm a role model," he said Monday. "But I feel honored when somebody says that to me."
Singleton made national headlines earlier in the summer for his response to the death of his mother, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, who was a victim of the Charleston, S.C., shooting at the Emanuel A.