POTSDAM – A year after his death, a popular Kingston Middle School student will be memorialized tonight .

A Potsdam High School senior has organized a concert in remembrance of 12-year-old Garrett Phillips on the anniversary of his slaying a year ago.

The concert will be at 6:30 tonight in the Potsdam High School auditorium.

After the concert a candlelight vigil, organized by Garrett’s uncle Brian Phillips, will be held outside.

The concert is envisioned an event where community members, many of whom feel unrelieved grief, can remember Garret.

The suggested donation is $3 per person or $10 per family, but no one will be turned away.

Garrett's cousins, Kayla and Kobe Phillips, will have a special performance. Six singers ranging in age from 11 to 17 will perform.

The concert idea began as Troy O'Brien's Capstone Project, a service requirement of Potsdam High seniors, but as he talked to friends and community leaders about it, it became clear to him that the concert would be more than a school requirement.

Garrett was killed Oct. 24, 2011 in the Market Street apartment he shared with his mother.

The community was shaken when it heard of the death of Garrett Phillips, a popular student at A.A. Kingston Middle School.

Potsdam police said that Garrett was at home after school that Monday afternoon when neighbors heard a loud noise and then moaning coming from the apartment.

Police were called and he was found unconscious and alone.

He was taken by the Potsdam Volunteer Rescue Squad to Canton-Potsdam Hospital, but efforts there to save him were unsuccessful.

Days later police declared his death a homicide, but the investigation, aided by New York State Police and their crime laboratory and the district attorney's office, has stalled. No arrest has been made and no suspects have been named.

The suggested donation is $3 per person or $10 per family, but no one will be turned away.