OT: Auburn Football Freshman Jakell Mitchell Killed In Apt. Shooting

Submitted by MgoblueAF on

Auburn football redshirt Freshman Jakell Mitchell (TE/H-Back) was killed in a shooting this morning at 12:25am. The shooting happened at the same apartment complex Desmonte Leonard killed former Auburn football players Ed Christian, Ladarious Phillips, and DeMario Pitts at a party in the summer of 2012.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/12026702/auburn-tigers-f…

bronxblue

December 14th, 2014 at 5:49 PM ^

Saw this earlier, and yet still is shocking. I know, sadly, that this type of violence happens far too often, but it doesn't make it any less sad when it occurs to these kids.

Victors for Harbaugh

December 14th, 2014 at 6:15 PM ^

Thats crazy. Just yesterday he was a living, breathing, moving, thinking creature. Now he is just a cold lifeless mass of skin and hair. All because of a single bullet.

Foote1982

December 14th, 2014 at 6:30 PM ^

Tragic and senseless, just read that a suspect has been arrested. I wish it were mandatory for student-athletes (till their Jr. year) to live in school provided athletic dorms. I went to a small D1 baseball school and this was how things operated.

goblue16

December 14th, 2014 at 7:43 PM ^

thats too bad dont know how a player for a major college football team has to worry about getting shot. With all the money these teams make they can at least assure their players get home safely at night

imablue

December 14th, 2014 at 9:31 PM ^

Condolences. The article stated that two other players and another person were killed at the same apartment complex in 2012. It looks like there was an arrest.

ShariaLawFan

December 15th, 2014 at 2:31 AM ^

I wonder what were the make and model of the "red car with the license plate "JAKELL" seen being towed away."