Carlos LaGerald Wills

Carlos LaGerald Wills was born December 24, 2005, and grew up in Lebanon, Tennessee. He was 18 years old when his life ended in September 2024. Public remembrances and a funeral home notice show a family who chose to share his name and dates with the community, and local reporting describes neighbors and loved ones who were left to grieve a young man with a future ahead of him.

While few public sources record extensive details about Carlos’s day-to-day life, the available notices and local coverage make clear that he was known to family and community in the Lebanon–Clarksville area. Friends and relatives who spoke with local media after the events surrounding his death remembered the urgency of trying to reach his loved ones and the shock felt by those who knew him. As with many young people, Carlos’s years were full of potential — relationships, plans, and the ordinary hopes that mark late adolescence.

The family arranged memorial services through a Lebanon-area funeral provider, and their public message asked for prayers and privacy while they mourned. That choice to gather, remember, and request community respect is itself a reflection of the close ties surrounding Carlos: people who wanted to honor him with dignity and care.

In remembering Carlos LaGerald Wills, it is important to hold to what is known and to treat the rest with restraint. He was a son and a member of a family and community that loved him. Though public details about hobbies, schooling, or work are limited in reliable sources, his obituary and local reporting confirm his name, age, and the deep upset his passing brought to those who knew him. This page honors Carlos as a person — a young life loved by family and mourned by a community — rather than by the circumstances of how he died. May those who loved him find comfort in memory and in the small, everyday connections that made him uniquely himself.