Vandy Recruit Shot, killed.

[Coach McGuirk]

Didn't this happen last year to a recruit?

Vanderbilt Commodores recruit Rajaan Bennett shot to death in apparent murder-suicide - ESPN

[Hot Lunch]

Didn't this happen last year to a recruit?

Vanderbilt Commodores recruit Rajaan Bennett shot to death in apparent murder-suicide - ESPN

Oregon had a recruit killed either last year or two years ago.

This is really sad.

[Coach McGuirk]

Oregon had a recruit killed either last year or two years ago.

This is really sad.

It is. To see these kids ready to start a life in college have it taken, just sucks.

[Hot Lunch]

It is. To see these kids ready to start a life in college have it taken, just sucks.

It really does. I don't know anything about the area of Georgia this kid is from but from the article it sounds like he was coming from a single parent home and he had a chance to get a great education from Vandy.

[il Padrino Ute]

Very sad news. God bless his family and friends.

[Ruby Soho]

It really does. I don't know anything about the area of Georgia this kid is from but from the article it sounds like he was coming from a single parent home and he had a chance to get a great education from Vandy.

Powder Springs is in the West-Northwest portion of Metro Atlanta. Not too rough, but for some reason there is A LOT of violence which takes place between African immigrants there.

[wuapinmon]

It really does. I don't know anything about the area of Georgia this kid is from but from the article it sounds like he was coming from a single parent home and he had a chance to get a great education from Vandy.

Powder Springs isn't a bad part of town. Hell, it was cow farms and pine/sweet gum forests in the 80's for the most part. This sounds more like a family issue than a locale issue.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Oregon had a recruit killed either last year or two years ago.

This is really sad.

The Oregon recruit that got shot and killed was Terrance Kelly, and as hard is it is to believe it was in 2004.

Oregon did have a player freshman player die 2 years ago, Todd Doxey, but it was a swimming/boating accident in the river not violence.

[Guest]

The Oregon recruit that got shot and killed was Terrance Kelly, and as hard is it is to believe it was in 2004.

Oregon did have a player freshman player die 2 years ago, Todd Doxey, but it was a swimming/boating accident in the river not violence.

The kid was from Richmond, CA (the iron triangle), but played for De La Salle. His story was an awful tragedy. IIRC, the kid who shot and killed him was like 15-years old.

Edit: Here is a write up on it. Tragic, indeed...

He had decided to join three of his De La Salle teammates and accept a full athletic scholarship to the University of Oregon. After he graduated in June, he spent much of the summer in Eugene working out with football players.

But in early August, he returned to the Bay Area to take care of a traffic ticket -- for making an illegal U-turn in Concord -- and to visit his grandmother and father.

The night of Aug. 12, Terrance Kelly had been playing pickup basketball with friends in Pinole. On his way home, he called Brandon at the home of the younger boy's girlfriend and offered him a ride home. Just after 10 p.m., Landrin Kelly called his son and asked him to come home so he could finish packing for the flight to Oregon.

"He said: 'Why are you trippin'? I'm cool. I'll be home soon,' " Kelly recalls. "Ten minutes later, he was dead."

"I basically had nothing to live for after Terrance was killed," said Landrin Kelly, 37. "I was a senior in high school when he was born; raising him was like my full-time job. I always worked at jobs that allowed me to be free to help coach his teams. He's my only child, and it was my job -- my mission -- to take care of him until he went off to college.

"Then, two days before he goes to college, my boy is killed. It's like: What did I live for? It's all gone."

http://articles.sfgate.com/2006-08-0...-kelly-s-death