Lorenzo-Charles-Obituary

Lorenzo Emile Charles

Wake Forest, North Carolina

1963 - 2011 (Age 47)

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Wake Forest, North Carolina

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Lorenzo Emile Charles, who is best known for taking a last-second desperation shot from teammate Dereck Whittenburg and slam-dunking the N.C. State Wolfpack basketball team to a 1983 NCAA championship title, died Monday afternoon in a bus crash on Interstate 40 in West Raleigh.Police said...

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God is a God of all Comfort and he will Comfort the family's..My heartfelt condolences to the family's..

God be with the family.

i still get chills seeing that video....keep close to your hearts that Lorenzo will forever be a part of the GREATEST MOMENT IN COLLEGE BASKETBALL HISTORY....RIP LORENZO, THANKS FOR THE MEMORY....

Lo will be missed by all whom he touched. I have been touched by the words of those whom he touched. RIP brother!

I just learned of Lorenzo going to heaven in June 2011 when reading an article an NC State student wrote about Dean Smith last month. I found it on a friend's FB page. But this is no accident. I sat up one night many years ago with a video camera in my hands and taped the 1983 game & Coach V's last speech that was being rebroadcast on tv. Our recording device was broken and I was determined to have what I had SO enjoyed in real life. Eventhough I'm a garnet bleeding SC Gamecock, I always...

My condolences to to family. May the God of love give you comfort at this time. RW

"My thoughts and prayers are with the Charles Family in their tinme of grief. At times like these,
'God' can give us "power beyond what is normal,"
so we can keep going from one day to the next."
[2 Cor. 4: 7]

1COR 15:26 promises that death will be no more...

JC,GA

R.I.P. Lorenzo, may the family be comforted in knowing you are with the Lord.