Community honors Corydon football player shot and killed at Harvest Homecoming | News from WDRB [Video]

CORYDON, Ind. (WDRB) — The town of Corydon, Indiana, came together Friday night to honor Bryce Gerlach on what would have been his senior night at Corydon Central High School.

The 18-year-old was an innocent bystander when he was shot and killed in an exchange of gunfire at Harvest Homecoming last weekend that left two others injured.

Friday, his fellow football players and the community process his loss and rally behind his grieving family.

While there was barely a dry eye at the game, there were also smiles, laughter, and music, the way Bryce’s friends said he would have wanted their senior night to be. 

“I know Bryce would want me to stay strong for him, and just to the way the community has been coming together for him, it’s just given me hope for a lot of things,” said Corydon senior Sam Haskins.

From the makeshift memorial outside the …