A highschool soccer star is useless after a tragic killing.
Gerald Andre Lomax, Jr., 17, was shot inside a automobile as he left a highschool basketball recreation Nov. 12, and handed away from his accidents the next day, in response to a collection of Birmingham Police Division press releases obtained by E! Information.
Birmingham, Ala. police responded to a name of an individual shot round 9:50 p.m. native time. When authorities arrived, Lomax—a varsity soccer and basketball participant at P.D. Jackson-Olin Excessive College—was discovered unresponsive and brought to UAB Hospital with an obvious gunshot wound.
Previous to the incident, the teenager “was concerned in a verbal altercation whereas leaving a basketball recreation,” in response to the police division’s preliminary investigation. As he and a pal tried to depart, an unidentified gunman fired “a number of photographs” into their automobile and struck Lomax, main his pal to drive to close by Woodlawn Excessive College for assist, in response to the press releases.
