The vigil will be at 6:30 p.m. at 417 Millville Ave. where Sandle lived and died.
His friends remembered him as someone who was down to earth and tried to stay positive, who liked the beach and sports and loved music, according to our news partner WCPO 9 On Your Side.
A next-door neighbor, Quinton Whitson, told WCPO that Sandle was like a big brother who kept him out of trouble.
“I started crying,” Whitson said. “I was walking home and I called my mom, and my mom said, ‘I have something sad to tell you,’ and I was like ‘What?’ And I just started bawling walking home with my head down.”
Rachel McCoy, who spent the evening with Sandle’s family, told WCPO the family moved to Ohio from Australia.
Hamilton police are continuing to investigate the Wednesday morning shooting as a homicide. Officers found Sandle suffering from a gunshot wound when they arrived at the Millville Avenue home where a shooting had been reported around 6:15 a.m. He died a short time later at an area hospital.
In a 911 recording obtained by this news outlet, a woman frantically tells a dispatcher that someone has shot her son.
“The other man just ran out,” the woman said, sobbing. The woman can then be heard telling her daughter to go in the bedroom and lock the door.
“I’m scared he is going to come back,” she said in the recording.
The woman told the dispatcher she heard yelling and a gunshot. The man, who she described as young with a slim build, held a gun to her head and told her to shut up before running out the door.
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