Fred Lane died just inside his home in south Charlotte

He loves it. He was excited about it and we are all so excited," Jenai Brown said. "He just wanted to make sure everything goes smooth and, so far, it has."

Helping out with the camp were former Wilson high school football standouts Re'quan Boyette, Larry Jones, Jumal Rolle and Tobias Brown, a rising sophomore at Catawba College along with Rolle.

"He has worked me to death!," Tobias said of his brother with a broad grin. "He has worked me to death but I love it."

Everette Brown pointed to the efforts of the volunteers as making the event a success.

"I can't ask for anything more from the people here. They really made the event," he said. "We call it Everette Brown Franchise. I'm Everette Brown but the Franchise is the most important part and that's all the people who came out to the event I put my name on."

Brown is heading into his second season with the Panthers jerseys  who took him in the second round of the 2009 NFL draft. He hopes to make the football camp and family field day an annual event although he said he might move the date from the holiday weekend so more people could come.

"Today was a great foundation and we can definitely build off it," Brown said. "Bigger and better things for the community and everybody who's going to be a part of it from here on out for years to come."

It was just six years ago Brown was chasing quarterbacks and catching passes on that very turf.

"It's an unreal feeling because (Friday) night I was here with (Beddingfield) Coach (James) Ward, getting things situated on the field and with the lights on, it kind of brought back memories. But at the same time, it seems like it was 10 years ago," Brown said.

It was a horrifying moment in Charlotte's sports history. If you lived here then, you probably remember where you were when you heard of the shooting of Lane, a former new Carolina Panthers jerseys starting running back. I certainly do - it was one of the oddest, saddest days of my journalism career.

Lane, 24, was killed by his estranged wife Deidra Lane at their South Charlotte home.

She shot her husband twice at close range with a 12-gauge, pump-action shotgun. The first blast struck his chest. The second hit the back of his head.

Deidra Lane ultimately pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in 2003 in connection with her husband's death. She was released from prison in 2009. Deidra and Fred Lane had a newborn daughter who was seven days old at the time of the shooting. That child had her 10th birthday last week.

Fred Lane's parents, Fred Sr. and Mary Lane, live in Nashville, Tenn. Fred Lane Sr. has retired after 32 years of teaching and coaching at the middle-school level in Tennessee. He said during a phone interview that the family has no plans for a memorial today on the 10th anniversary of his son's death.