Taken too soon: Community remembers teen who died in his sleep

Christopher Joseph Sweeney loved to cook.

When he was just a boy of 7, Chris's mother Jill remembers her son running down the stairs and into the kitchen, asking her about the meal she was preparing, and guessing at the ingredients.

When hanging out at a friend's house, Christopher would often leave video game competitions behind, to head for the kitchen to cook up appetizing snacks for his buddies.

He worked at Cherrywoods Barbecue on Route 53 and at Black Rock Country Club in Hingham, and just last week, he fixed a memorable meal of baby back ribs for his family during a vacation trip they took to the Outer Banks of North Carolina.