June 2019 1
Shawn Rankins, 28: “My son had a loving heart”
His family and the Philadelphia Eagles were what Shawn Rankins loved the most, his mother Shawna said. “Shawn’s main goal was to take care of me and my mom and to show his siblings a different path than what he took,” she said. He had made mistakes in the past. Starting in his teenage years, […]
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