One local community is mourning the loss of a high school baseball player and friend to many.
Kaleb Fenton, 17, died Sunday night after a car crash early that morning.
Fenton's friends remember the young man as selfless and happy.
The teen would have been a senior next year at Hardin Valley Academy, and was the catcher for the school's baseball team.
"Kaleb was like one of my best friends," said 17-year-old Brandon Dougherty. "I know if you had got the chance to know him, you would love him just as I did. He was like my brother."
He and Fenton met as sophomores, while working at the same restaurant. They grew close.
"He was just always ready to do something for someone else," Dougherty said. "If you need a smile, he's trying to put that smile on your face, and he would always worry about other people before himself."
Violet Mullins, 17, is friends with Fenton's sister.
"I just find it hard to imagine what it'd be like for his family," Mullins said, "how it happened so quickly."
She's an artist and channeled her shock and grief into a sketch of Fenton in his baseball uniform.
"I just worked on it this morning," Mullins said, holding up her sketch pad. "When I heard about Kaleb, I felt like I had to do something."
After Fenton died from his injuries, members of the Hardin Valley Academy community were shocked and saddened.
"Kaleb was one of a kind. Very genuine, kind hearted, and always always happy," Fenton's friend Logan Feys said. "It breaks my heart that his sweet face will no longer walk our halls. But I know he'll shine bright and do great things in Heaven."
Friend and baseball teammate Dawson Byard told WBIR, "Kaleb was a special guy who was truly one of a kind. He was the type of person who would put anyone before himself. Some people talk about taking a bullet for someone but Kaleb was the type of guy who would actually do it. His radiant energy and constant positive attitude would put a smile on anyone's face. His ability to answer any request with a smile on his face made him the perfect teammate and player. He was a fantastic guy that I will genuinely miss."
Hardin Valley baseball coach Joe Michalski wrote, "Kaleb was a one-in-a-million young man. He had a remarkable ability to touch and inspire everyone he met."
As HVA staff members sat down to discuss Fenton, Michalski wrote, "he continues to inspire us again and again because of his selflessness, courage, and true friendship. He lived his entire life giving himself to others and would climb mountains as long as it meant that someone else would succeed. He never wanted anything in return. His energy and enthusiasm for life were contagious and he routinely motivated the baseball team to push beyond what they thought was possible."
He said Kaleb's group of close friends included fellow baseball players and people not on the team.
"His impact on my life will last as long as I live and I'll always be grateful for being given the chance to know him," Michalski wrote.
"I can't get him off my mind," Dougherty said Monday afternoon. "I know he'll always be there with me."
Dougherty wrestled for HVA and said Fenton was a great supporter and friend.
"We don't get very many spectators," Dougherty said, "but because I asked him to, (Fenton) came to every home match last season and even took time to go to an away match just to see me wrestle. He was a great person."
Counselors were at Hardin Valley Academy Monday afternoon.
Students are planning a candlelight memorial for Fenton later this month.
The Knox County Sheriff's Office says this was a single-vehicle crash and Fenton was the only person involved. That crash report, with some additional information, is due out later this week.