A university basketball player was shot dead while sitting in a white Mercedes at a Recent Jersey nature preserve over the weekend, authorities said.
Phil Urban, 20 — a 6-foot-6 hoopster who graduated from the elite Pennington School — played for Post University in Connecticut before his tragic death.
The Manalapan native was shot around 7 p.m. Saturday on the Hopewell Valley Nature Preserve, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said in a press release.
Police said they found him “slumped over” in the driving force’s seat of the posh automobile, which was parked on a trail.
He was transported to Capital Health Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, authorities said.
Urban died from a gunshot wound, and his death is being investigated by homicide detectives. No arrests have been made.
The circumstances of his death remain unclear, but authorities said they imagine he was planning to satisfy some on the Hopewell park.
Urban recently joined the team at Post on a basketball scholarship, and the college welcomed him in an April tweet.
One among his former teams, the Recent Jersey Panthers, also wrote about him on Twitter in March, “The bouncy 6’6 wing has a great deal of potential and we will’t wait to see what he does at Post!”
As well as, an ex-coach tweeted about him on the time, “This kid has handled a variety of adversity within the last yr and if I told you the way he handled it, you’d be proud too!
“Super excited for Philly man— stayed humble, trusted the method and achieved a goal!”
