Jackson-Olin football player killed in shooting near Woodlawn H.S. remembered as “upstanding student” [Video]

A Jackson-Olin high school senior and student-athlete was remembered Wednesday as an “upstanding student” who was “a favorite of the administration” and “a favorite of his peers.””Ready to graduate, ready to embark upon life and find his path to, you know, to success,” Birmingham City Schools board member Jason Meadows said Wednesday of 17-year-old Gerald Lomax Jr. “And so everything in front of him, it was all snatched away from him by a senseless act of violence.”Birmingham Police said Gerald Lomax Jr. was shot Tuesday night after leaving a Woodlawn High School basketball game.”They are there taking it hard like the cheerleaders and the football team,” Birmingham City Schools board member Jason Meadows said Wednesday. “It’s devastating when you have someone who was doing the right things, who was a favorite of the administration, a favorite of his peers. And yet this happens.” His football coach Joe Webb said Lomax …