- MSU student Lance Fogelberg organizes 5K to honor friend Brendan Davis, who died by suicide.
- Event aims to raise mental health awareness and de-stigmatize conversations around it.
- Proceeds from the 5K will go to the Just B Brendan Davis Memorial Foundation.
- Video shows Fogelberg and Brendan’s father ,Shawn, discussing the 5k’s mission.
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Last Summer, Brendan Davis, a student at Michigan State, died by suicide. Now, his childhood friend Lance, also an MSU student, is honoring his memory and hoping to open the conversation about mental health with a 5k on campus this weekend.
“He’s always been one of my really close friends,” Lance Fogelberg said.
“He was a great student,” Shawn Davis said. “He was a straight-A student in high school and in college.
A lifelong friend and a scholar, Brendan Davis is remembered by many nearly one year and three months after he died by suicide.