Kid Reporter, Who Asked Obama to be His ‘Homeboy’ in Interview at White House, Dies at 23

(*23*)The scholar reporter who gained nationwide acclaim when he interviewed President Barack Obama at the White House in 2009 has died of pure causes, his household says. Damon Weaver was 23 when he died on May 1, his sister, Candace Hardy, instructed the Palm Beach Post. Further particulars weren’t launched. He had been learning communications at Albany State University in Georgia.

Weaver was 11 when he interviewed Obama for 10 minutes in the Diplomatic Room on August 13, 2009, asking questions that targeted totally on schooling. He lined college lunches, bullying, battle decision and the way to succeed.

Weaver then requested Obama to be his “homeboy,” saying then-Vice President Joe Biden had already accepted. “Absolutely,” a smiling Obama mentioned, shaking the boy’s hand. He used that assembly to later interview Oprah Winfrey and athletes like Dwyane Wade.

“He was just a nice person, genuine, very intelligent,” Hardy mentioned. “Very outspoken, outgoing. He never said no to anybody.”

Weaver obtained his begin in fifth grade when he volunteered for the varsity newscast at Ok.E. Cunningham/Canal Point Elementary in a farm neighborhood on the shores of Lake Okeechobee.

“Damon was the kid who ran after me in the hall to tell me he was interested,” his trainer, Brian Zimmerman, instructed the Post in 2016. “And right away, I just saw the potential for the way he was on camera. You could see his personality come through. He wasn’t nervous being on camera.”

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