LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A scholarship for Kentucky high school students will honor a man fatally shot at a protest over the police killing of Breonna Taylor, according to a Tuesday announcement.
Tyler Gerth, 27, was killed in late June near a demonstration at Louisville’s Jefferson Square Park for Taylor, a Louisville emergency medical technician who was shot multiple times during a police raid at her apartment in March.
The Tyler Gerth Memorial Foundation announced that a scholarship in Gerth’s honor would be established to help young men attend his high school alma mater, Trinity High School.
The Catholic college preparatory school in Louisville costs upward of $15,000 a year, The Courier-Journal reported.
Gerth, who photographed the Breonna Taylor protests and would post those photos to his Instagram account, was remembered by family members as “incredibly kind, tenderhearted and generous, holding deep convictions and faith.”
“It was this sense of justice that drove Tyler to be part of the peaceful demonstrations advocating for the destruction of the systemic racism within our society’s systems,” his family said in a statement at the time.
Gerth also had mentored youth through a Big Brothers, Big Sisters program, the announcement said.
The scholarship will be need-based and renewable, requiring academic and behavior good standing, the Memorial Foundation said. Preference will be given “to a minority student who represents Tyler’s remarkable qualities to stand up for the marginalized, serve humbly and work hard to better themselves,” the announcement said.
The Foundation said the fund is currently taking donations.
Please read our comment policy before commenting.