Noah Scurry, a 17-year-old Samuel Fels High School basketball player, was shot and killed on the way to school with his mother Tuesday morning, according to the school district and police.
Scurry was found shot on the 5000 block of Rorer Street, near Tacony Creek Park and Roosevelt Boulevard, around 7:15 a.m., according to a Philadelphia police spokesperson.
“The principal, coach, players, classmates, peers, are distraught,” Monique Braxton, a spokesperson for the School District of Philadelphia, said. “This is unimaginable for them. The student was getting in the car with his mom this morning in the back of his home, and he was shot and killed. This student was about to graduate. He probably would’ve have offers to play basketball and schools across the country. And it’s just a life senselessly cut short”…