Tennessee college basketball player killed in Nashville freeway shooting
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A Tennessee college basketball player was shot and killed while in a vehicle on a Nashville highway, police said Monday.
Andre Bell, 20, was a Fisk University sophomore from Jackson, Tennessee. The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said the man died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Bell was returning to campus on Interstate 65 with two friends after participating in a gymnastics event. Police said the trio was in Bell’s Nissan Sentra when their friend noticed a black sedan next to them in the left lane.
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Fisk University basketball player Andre Bell, 20, was shot in the head and killed while returning to campus, police said.
“Both said they were distracted by their cell phones when they suddenly heard multiple gunshots and realized Bell had been shot,” a police news release said.
Police said the Sentra slowed and swerved back into traffic before colliding with a red pickup truck. The dark sedan continued on its way.
Bell was shot in the head and taken to the hospital in critical condition before he died.
Investigators said evidence showed damage to the windshield of the car from which the shots were fired, based on broken glass at the scene.
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Andre Bell’s Nissan Sentra on I-65 North in Nashville. (Metropolitan Nashville Police Department)
Fisk University said in a statement that it mourned the tragic loss of business administration graduate Bell.
Fisk men’s basketball head coach Jeremiah Crutcher described Bell as a “gentle young man” who was “unfairly removed from this world.”
Jubilee Hall at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, on January 1, 2016. (Photo: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images) (Getty Images)
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“He was a dominant force on the Fisk University Men’s Basketball team, but he is best remembered for his infectious smile, loving personality and unique ability to always bring warmth to a room,” he said. “There is now a profound absence from our program, but more importantly, a deep pain in our hearts. We will truly miss him. Our thoughts and unwavering prayers are with his family, the young children in his family, and the young children in Nashville who looked up to him.”
