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Basketball player at Houston Baptist killed in New York shooting

By WJBD Staff Jun 21, 2022 | 6:24 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police say a college basketball player was killed and eight other people were wounded Monday in an early-morning shooting at a gathering in Harlem.

Officials at Houston Baptist University say 21-year-old senior Darius Lee was killed. The wounded included six males and two females.

Officers responded around 12:40 a.m. to reports of a shooting on a footpath along FDR Drive and found several people wounded. Other victims went to hospitals on their own.