Overview

• About 200 people attended the two-hour service at St Mary’s Anglican Church in Sunbury as a white casket was carried to a hearse.
• Family and teammates remembered Chol as a loving younger brother devoted to basketball with the Nile Warriors and praised for his kindness and determination.
• Chol and 15-year-old friend Dau Akueng were allegedly ambushed in Cobblebank on September 6 after leaving basketball, and both died at the scene.
• Police have charged eight people with murder over the attack, including five teenagers aged 15 and 16 and three men aged 18 and 19.
• Chol was laid to rest at Maddingley Cemetery as clergy and community members offered prayers and called for change to prevent similar tragedies.