After graduation, his mother persuaded him to take a scholarship offered by DSU. He graduated from the Dover college with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and sociology and became a youth rehabilitative counselor at Ferris School, a detention center for juvenile criminals. At Ferris, he decided to influence students there before they ended up behind bars.
“I wanted to be at the preventive stage … to work in the schools and be more of a role model for these kids because I can relate to them,” he said in 2015. “I come from the same communities they come from. I understand the struggles that they go through.”
