A 14-year-old who authorities said was fatally stabbed by another teen at a group home in Oakland Park is being remembered as a kind and smart student by a former teacher.

Jordan Dowdy was stabbed to death by a 16-year-old during a fight at the home along the 5400 block of Northeast 3rd Avenue on Monday, Broward Sheriff's Office officials said.

Longtime educator Eva Cuffy had been Dowdy's science teacher at Lanier-James Education Center in Hallandale Beach last year, and spoke with NBC6 by video call on Friday about his killing.

"He was very very much a gentleman, and very respectful to me," Cuffy said. "He did everything I asked him to do, he learned things quickly. We were talking about respiration, photosynthesis, he got the diagrams right. He absorbed things, everything I gave him

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