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Philadelphia high school basketball player shot and killed

Noah Scurry, a 17-year old student-athlete at Samuel Fels High, suffered multiple gun shot wounds, according to Philadelphia Police

Gary Adornato

Noah Scurry, a basketball player at Sameul Fels High in Philadelphia, was reportedly shot and killed on Tuesday morning, according to the Philadelphia Police Department.
Noah Scurry, a basketball player at Sameul Fels High in Philadelphia, was reportedly shot and killed on Tuesday morning, according to the Philadelphia Police Department. / Noah Scury Instagra

Tragedy has struck the Philadelphia high school basketball community, as Noah Scurry, a 17-year old basketball player at Sameul Fels High School, was shot and skilled on Tuesday morning while on his way to school, according to a report by CBS News Philadelphia.

A spokesperson for the Philadelphia Police Department said the incident took place on the 5000 block of Tacony Creek Park and Roosevelt Boulevard at 7:15 a.m. Scurry suffered multiple gun shot wounds and was transported to a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead.

By all accounts, Scurry was an excellent student and athlete. According to a letter sent to the Samuel Fels community by school Principal Melissa Rasper, Scurry had the school's highest score on the SAT college placement tests and he was the leading scorer on the basketball team, averaging 15 points per game this season.

"It is with a heavy heart that I write to inform you of the passing of one of our students whose life was tragically taken this morning near his home," Rasper wrote on Tuesday. "Our deepest condolences and thoughts go out to the family and friends of this student."

Rasper also announced that the school has canceled all basketball practices and games for the remainder of this week.

According to a statement made by a spokesperson for the School District of Philadelphia to CBS News Philadelphia, the attack took place near Scurry's home while he and his mother were getting into their car to drive to school.

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Gary Adornato
GARY ADORNATO

Gary Adornato is the Senior VP of Content for High School On SI and SBLive Sports. He began covering high school sports with the Baltimore Sun in 1982, while still a mass communications major at Towson University. In 2003 became one of the first journalists to cover high school sports online while operating MIAASports.com, the official website of the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association. Later, Adornato pioneered market-wide coverage of high school sports with DigitalSports.com, introducing video highlights and player interviews while assembling an award-winning editorial staff. In 2010, he launched VarsitySportsNetwork.com which became the premier source of high school media coverage in the state of Maryland. In 2022, he sold VSN to The Baltimore Banner and joined SBLive Sports as the company's East Coast Managing Editor.

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