The 17-year-old was leaving a high school basketball game with a friend, Tuesday night, Nov. 12, when someone fired multiple shots into their vehicle, striking the student-athlete.
Gerald Andre Lomax Jr., 17, was pronounced dead at a Birmingham, Ala., hospital just before noon the following day, Chief Deputy Coroner Bill Yates confirmed in a press release to PEOPLE.
Gerald, a senior at P.D. Jackson-Olin High School, was a varsity basketball and football player, who also held a job at Foot Locker, according to his social media.
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His head football coach, Joe Webb III, a former NFL quarterback from Birmingham, mourned the death of his player – who closed out the season playing defensive end, offensive guard and tight end – on a series of Instagram Story posts.
“‘Preciate everything you done …