The "18 Year Plan"

So I don't consider myself a sucker for sad stories, nor am I easily choked up, but every now and then I'll come across a story that kind of rattles me. This story did that. It was published today on ESPN.com and it tells the story of a High School student who was murdered. I don't know why this story shook me up more than others, maybe it's because I have lost friends to the same circumstances or maybe because we all pull for the underdog, and Jas definitely was an underdog.
It also brings to mind the verse in James 4:14....
"Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away."