Freshman college football player Trevor VanDyke killed in North Carolina
By SDS Staff
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Trevor VanDyke, a freshman football player for N.C. Central University, was tragically shot and killed Monday night in Durham, North Carolina.
Police responded to calls of a gunshot wound at the 4600 block of Industry Lane just after 9:30 p.m. to find VanDyke deceased at the scene. According to reports, investigators think VanDyke was shot while driving his car, veered off the road and then crashed.
“Our community has been shaken by the sudden and tragic death of one of our first-year students,” NCCU Chancellor Johnson O. Akinleye said on the school’s website.
“It is with a very heavy heart that I share the news that Mr. Trevor VanDyke was killed on March 2, 2020, in a shooting at an off campus apartment complex,” the statement continued. “He entered NCCU in August 2019 and was a graduate of Clayton High School in Clayton, N.C. Mr. VanDyke’s death is currently being investigated as a homicide by the Durham Police Department.”
VanDyke was a defensive back for NCCU and graduated from Clayton High School.
The investigation into the shooting remains active, and anyone with any information is encouraged to call Investigator J. Mitchell at (919) 560-4440 extension 29335 or CrimeStoppers at (919) 683-1200.
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