Four nights after his father's postgame pep talk, on Nov. 29, Amari Peterson was one of four victims - including three children - killed in a mass shooting at a toddler's birthday party in Stockton.
Just last month, he'd taken 14-year-old Amari to a boys basketball game at Modesto's Downey High School. Afterward, Patrick told Amari, a lanky point guard still in eighth grade, to start lifting more ...