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Beloved Excessive Faculty Scholar-Athlete Shot Lifeless Leaving House for Faculty

A 17-year-old Philadelphia high school scholar-athlete was shot and killed Tuesday morning as he was preparing to leave for school with his mother. Noah Scurry was a senior at Samuel Fels High School, where he was captain of the school’s boy’s basketball team, KYW reported. He was getting into his mother’s car in an alley

Beloved Excessive Faculty Scholar-Athlete Shot Lifeless Leaving House for Faculty

A 17-year-old Philadelphia highschool scholar-athlete was shot and killed Tuesday morning as he was making ready to depart for varsity along with his mom.

Noah Scurry was a senior at Samuel Fels Excessive Faculty, the place he was captain of the varsity’s boy’s basketball group, KYW reported. He was moving into his mom’s automobile in an alley behind their Northeast Philly residence at about 7:15 a.m. when the gunshots rang out. First responders discovered the boy with a number of gunshots and rushed him to Jefferson Einstein Hospital, however he didn’t survive.

Police mentioned on Wednesday they’d discovered white Jeep Grand Cherokee matching the outline of a suspect car seen within the neighborhood earlier than the capturing after which rushing away afterward.

Investigators haven’t mentioned if they’ve any thought of a motive or suspects within the capturing.

Scurry was one in all 4 individuals shot in an unsolved homicide case in Might 2023. Police mentioned Ivan Corridor, 66, was shot and killed in that capturing, and three 15-year-olds have been wounded. Scurry was one of many teenagers.

The highschool cancelled all video games scheduled for this week within the wake of the capturing, and Principal Melissa Rasper mentioned in a letter to households that he was a “beloved scholar and classmate” who had lately scored the best of some other Fels scholar on the SATs.

“Ours is a tight-knit group, and I do know that that is troublesome information to obtain even when it doesn’t happen on college property,” Rasper wrote. “Demise isn’t one thing that’s simple to simply accept, particularly when it includes a youngster, a classmate and notably throughout these instances as our metropolis grapples with heightened gun violence.”

The varsity district is offering counselors for college kids and employees.

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“The principal, coach, gamers, classmates, friends, are distraught,” Monique Braxton, a spokesperson for the Faculty District of Philadelphia, mentioned Tuesday. “That is unimaginable for them. The coed was getting within the automobile along with his mother this morning behind his residence, and he was shot and killed. This scholar was about to graduate. He in all probability would’ve had provides to play basketball at schools throughout the nation. And you understand, it’s only a life senselessly lower quick.”

A $20,000 reward has been supplied for data resulting in an arrest and conviction. Anybody with data ought to name the Murder Unit at 215-686-3334 or the PPD tipline at 215-686-8477, WCAU said.

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[Featured image: Noah Scurry/GoFundMe]

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