A 16-year-old Milford teenager shot and killed at a massive Northborough house party early Sunday morning was remembered in his obituary as a quiet person with lots of friends.
Ygor Leandro De Oliveira Correia died at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester following the shooting at 333 Howard St. in Northborough, according to the Worcester County district attorney’s office. Correia was born in Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil and later moved to Milford, where he lived at the time of his death.
The district attorney’s office previously said Correia lived in Bellingham, which is adjacent to Milford.
Three men are facing weapons charges in connection with Correia’s death — Wallisom Texeira Da Silva, 20, of Hyde Park, Arnoldo Nogueira Filho, 19, of Marlborough and Pedro Desouza-Passos, 27, of Rockland. All three were arraigned in Worcester District Court on Tuesday.
A sophomore at Milford High School, Correia loved cars, music and soccer, his family wrote.
Correia has four siblings, two of which live in Brazil, according to this obituary.
Services will be held for Correia on Friday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Milford.
A GoFundMe was created Monday to help the boy’s family pay for funeral costs and bring his body back to Brazil to hold a wake.
The fundraiser was organized by Leandro Correia, who identified himself as the teen’s father. In the posting, Leandro Correia wrote that the family needs “everyone’s collaboration to raise funds and help … in this moment of pain and need.”
“Any contribution, no matter how small, will be of great value so that we can provide a worthy goodbye to this dear young man,” Leandro Correia wrote.
Leandro Correia described Brazil as the boy’s “homeland” and called for unity and solidarity as the family continues to reel from the teen’s killing.
“May we comfort each other and honor the memory of this very special young man who unfortunately had his life taken away brutally,” the fundraiser reads.
