The family of a 16-year-old Cheyenne East High School soccer player will celebrate his life Saturday following a July 17 ATV crash on Elk Mountain with friends that left him with brain injuries in a Denver hospital ICU.

The parents of Rielly Jay Smith have been going through a “nightmare” as they first experienced days of hope that their son’s brain swelling might go down before learning from another specialist eight days later that he h ad essentially died seconds after his crash.

Brandon Smith characterized his son Rielly as a “jokester who always made everybody smile.”

“He touched a lot of hearts and got his friends through some dark days,” Brandon Smith said.

He said Rielly was a “confident” young man who was “100%” into soccer and played forward and striker. He loved the camarader

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