There also was a TV piece on it, on the Outside the Lines program, which aired Sunday morning. You know there’s so much more to the story than is revealed in this rather lengthy ESPN piece, written by Tom Friend. Then Alexandra tried, and that got a response.įinally, father and daughter met, and are trying to forge a relationship. Activate your Online Access Now Article content If you are a Home delivery print subscriber, unlimited online access is included in your subscription. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
Johnson of The Orlando Sentinel staff contributed to this report. I’d look up to him, and he’d say, ‘What’s up?’ and laugh. “I remember how he’d put up his hand to high-five me. “I just keep thinking about that big smile,” Fitchum said. Less than two weeks ago, Mike Fitchum, a buddy and co-worker from Panera, said he felt Cory was in heaven. He had just picked up some bread to take to a cookout the family was attending. “I’ll be home in 20 minutes,” Cory told his dad May 28. It was there that Julius Erving last talked to his son. “He was the first one to grab a broom or mop,” said Ed Sepko, general manager at Panera, a bakery near the Ervings’ home. He went to Seminole Community College to earn his high-school equivalency diploma and he was described by co-workers at Panera - where he worked part-time - as a model employee. His family told him he must enroll in school, get a job and stay clean.įriends say he tried. In February, Julius Erving said his son graduated from his most recent attempt to overcome his addiction. Julius Erving said this was where his son’s drug problems began.įor the past five years, Cory has been in and out of drug rehabilitation programs. Unable to keep up with the larger, more challenging classes, his poor grades made him ineligible to play sports. He wanted to play for a varsity basketball program.Īt age 14, he entered Harriton High School, where his dreams came to a crashing end. “He was a charismatic boy, a kid who really lit up the room when he walked in,” Rogers said.īut Cory Erving yearned to go to a “normal” school and be like everybody else. Principal Jack Rogers said teachers remember him well. Woodlynde School in Pennsylvania was one of those schools. He suffered with learning disabilities and until eighth grade grew up in schools that had programs for kids with special academic needs. Two of Julius and Turquoise Erving’s four children are carving out their own successful niches - Julius III, 26, with sports and entertainment businesses in Philadelphia and daughter, Jazmin, 23, who graduated from Spelman College and has been accepted for further studies at Georgia State.Ĭory Erving’s life had been filled with privilege but also with struggle.
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Julius Erving, who dominated professional basketball for a decade, forged a successful business career after retirement and settled into a comfortable life with his family in Alaqua, an exclusive golf-course community near Lake Mary. A young girl told police he had traded it for some of her CDs Police did turn up Erving’s wallet with his RDV Sportsplex card. They also dragged a lake and a retention pond in the neighborhood. Three weeks ago, deputies interviewed Seminole County Jail inmates arrested in unrelated drug stings who had lived in the area where the fight took place. Police said Erving was upset and tried to purchase a gun to “retaliate.” Then he vanished. Investigators said Erving and an unidentified man in east Altamonte Springs fought about two weeks before his disappearance.
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