# @newsday on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DcbjNmxIIRm
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69684935-newsday-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-08-24T17:01:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Newsday • Long Island News (@newsday) — https://gondola.cc/newsday

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Ryan Icart, a 2026 graduate of Valley Stream Central High School who was set to attend college next semester, died last Sunday, his family said. He was 18.

While the three-year high school varsity football lineman stood 6-3 and weighed 330 pounds, his family described him as a gentle young man who cared about other people.

"We call him a big teddy bear. He was big — he was huge — but he was a softy," Ryan’s cousin Odia Charlotin told Newsday. "If you were feeling sad, he would [go out of] his way just to make you feel happy. Being around him makes you happy."

Read the full obituary in the link in bio. (Photo credit: Sara Jean-Baptiste)
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