Students at Spencer Elementary School will remember 11-year-old Anthony Carr on Friday with kind words and a homemade purple bunting.
Anthony died early Wednesday after he was struck by a speeding car at Monroe Street and Cicero Avenue. According to police, Anthony was killed after he was hit by an early 1980s model black Buick LeSabre that never stopped.
Witnesses told police that there were two people in the car. Both are at large, police said.
Spencer School was the site of personal triumph for Anthony. There, according to Principal Dyanne Alexander, he learned to read instead of brood and to care about life instead of wasting time at home and on the street.
``Under his rough and tough exterior, Anthony was a gentle boy,``
``He was growing quite a lot. . . . We were all very proud of him.``
Alexander described Anthony as a street-smart youth who initially disliked school and frequently did not attend classes. Bur Alexander said, even when Anthony was having academic problems, he dutifully cared for his two sisters who also attended the school.
In a special school program, Anthony began to read, write and play with computers, Alexander said.
``He liked poems,`` Alexander said.
On Thursday, school administrators tried to buy a purple bunting to place atop the school`s entrance as a memorial to Anthony. But the cheapest one they could find cost $250-too expensive for the school`s budget. Instead, school officials said, Anthony`s classmates will make their own bunting. And on Friday, two assemblies will be held in Anthony`s memory and money will be collected to help his family pay for the funeral, Alexander said.