HICKORY, NC (FOX 46 CHARLOTTE) – A teenager who was sitting down in the passenger seat of a automobile outside an apartment complex in Hickory died following becoming shot multiple instances, the Hickory Police Department mentioned Saturday.

Officers responded to phone calls relating to gunshots close to 1 a.m. Saturday at Civitan Court Apartments positioned at 405 17th Ave. 19-yr-old Omari Alexander was discovered suffering from several gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead on the scene.

Alexander performed soccer at Lenoir-Rhyne, the school explained on social media. He was a redshirt sophomore. The workforce was scheduled to perform Saturday at Bowie condition at 1 p.m. in the initial spherical of the NCAA Playoffs. Alexander attended Charlotte’s Mallard Creek Superior Faculty, according to the team’s web page. Mallard Creek was the matter of a enormous brawl this 7 days for the duration of college hours that resulted in 17 persons being charged.

Alexander was sitting down in the passenger’s seat of a Chevy Camaro that was running idle in the apartment complex’s parking whole lot when officers arrived, according to the police report.

There is no point out of an arrest at this time and this continues to be an active investigation.

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