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Dez’Jon Taylor loved Takis spicy tortilla chips and pineapple sherbet.

Taylor might have spent this weekend playing football with friends and planning a sleep-over with them — but only if his chores and homework were done. Like most 15-year-old boys, Taylor just wanted to crack jokes, listen to music and eat junk food, said his mother, Melodie Hopkins.

(On Fridays) he would come home, get dressed, get his hair cut,” Hopkins said. “Then he would be on his way.”

Taylor frequented local convenience stores for Takis, Arizona sweet tea and pop.

“He liked Sandy’s Popper because they have this good ice cream. He would always order pineapple sherbet. He loved sherbet. Sherbet was his stuff,” Hopkins said with a smile. “I was like, dude, your stomach is all types of tore up.”

Hopkins said she is clinging to those memories the best she can, because Taylor is gone.

The Bradford running back nicknamed “Muscle Milk” died April 28, three days after he was stabbed in the chest at Bradford High School by another student. Hopkins said Taylor could have been “anyone’s son or daughter.”