VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Raymond Colston, known as "Coach Ray," who worked as an assistant football coach at Kempsville High School and a youth coordinator at First Baptist Church South Hill, passed away Sunday, according to an email sent to the Kempsville school community.

"It is with a heavy heart that I share some sad news," wrote Principal Tamika Singletary-Johnson. "I know this news impacts all of us and we will come together as a community to support each other and Coach Colston's family."

Singletary-Johnson's sentiments were echoed by his Chesapeake church, which also shared a post on its Facebook page about Colton's death.

The church called him a "passionate, creative, hardworking and dynamic Youth Coordinator... deeply loved by our entire church family.

A cause of death was not s

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