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Jonathan Mason, who was a youth development specialist who mentored Wright when he was in high school, recalled his warm personality and how he dreamed of owning a business one day, according to the Star Tribune.

“He was someone who had a future,” Mason said. “Daunte was funny, he was lively. He was the center of attention. He had a very, very welcoming personality. He would joke with you back and forth.”

Mason said he would talk with Daunte and the other Black boys he mentored about police encounters and how they should handle them.

“He was afraid police would do something like this to him,” Mason said. “We talked about this daily. We talked about police brutality. We talk about these things in the Black community.”

In the Oval Office on Monday, President Joe Biden offered his condolences to the Wright family and said he had watched the video of the incident, calling it “fairly graphic.”

“The question is was it an accident? Was it intentional? That remains to be determined by a full-blown investigation,” Biden said.

In a statement Tuesday, former president Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, said their “hearts are heavy over yet another shooting of a Black man, Daunte Wright, at the hands of police.”

“The fact that this could happen even as the city of Minneapolis is going through the trial of Derek Chauvin and reliving the heart-wrenching murder of George Floyd indicates not just how important it is to conduct a full and transparent investigation, but also just how badly we need to reimagine policing and public safety in this country,” they said.

“Michelle and I grieve alongside the Wright family for their loss. We empathize with the pain that Black mothers, fathers, and children are feeling after yet another senseless tragedy,” they added. “And we will continue to work with all fair-minded Americans to confront historical inequities and bring about nationwide changes that are so long overdue.”