Hundreds gathered Friday to remember a Niles teen who drowned in Evanston Wednesday night.

Family, community members and Niles North High School varsity basketball teammates of 17-year-old Sameer Quadri attended a memorial service for the teen at the Muslim Community Center in Irving Park Friday afternoon.

Sameer slipped under water around 8:50 p.m. at Evanston’s Lighthouse Beach in the 2600 block of Sheridan Road, along the north side of the beach’s break wall, according to the Evanston Fire Department and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He was located about 30 yards offshore around 9:30 p.m. and rushed to Evanston Hospital where he later died.

Habeeb Quadri, Sameer’s cousin, said he had been proficient in math and was considered pursuing engineering as he looked at options

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