Phil Dowdell: 'Instead of graduation, he’ll be at the cemetery'
Phil Dowdell is one of four victims killed in a shooting in Dadeville, Alabama.
The attack happened on Saturday night as his sister Alexis was celebrating her 16th birthday.
Phil was 18 and a rising football star about to graduate high school.
The BBC spoke to his sister and mother, as they remembered his life and last moments.
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