NC Central football player Trevor VanDyke fatally shot, officials say

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By Bob D’Angelo, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
March 3, 2020
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Trevor VanDyke, a defensive back for the North Carolina Central University football team, was fatally shot Monday night in Durham, friends and school officials said. He was 18.

Police responded to a call of a victim with a gunshot at an off-campus apartment complex just after 9:30 p.m., WRAL reported. Police found VanDyke's body at the scene, the television station reported.

A rising sophomore VanDyke had just started at NCCU and was very excited to have the opportunity to play for the university, according to his cousin. His cousin told WRAL that football was VanDyke's "one true love."

"Our community has been shaken by the sudden and tragic death of one of our first-year students," NCCU Chancellor Johnson O. Akinleye said in a statement posted to the university'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."

VanDyke played high school football for the Clayton Comets and graduated in 2019, The News & Observer reported.

"It is a sad day in Comet Country," Clayton High School wrote on its Facebook page Tuesday morning.

VanDyke’s death is being investigated as a homicide by the Durham Police Department, Akinleye wrote in his statement.

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