A 15-year-old North High School student died Thursday after he was struck by gunfire in Minneapolis a day earlier.
Sophomore Deshaun Hill Jr. was a quarterback for the school's football team and the subject of an upcoming documentary, according to his uncle Deontray Walker. Police found Hill with a life-threatening gunshot wound near the intersection of N. Golden Valley Road and N. Penn Avenue around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday.
His family believes he was walking from school when someone passed him and shot him, Walker said.
"We don't know who that was, we don't know much at all," Walker said. "He hasn't been in any arguments or fights."
North High School staff shared the news in a Facebook posting Thursday evening. "Dear Polar Nation," it read. "We have lost our beloved D. Hill."
Hill was not only a star athlete, but also a gifted student who earned a place on the A honor roll, according to Walker.
"He's always been a star, every year he was on a team, they'd win the championships since he was 8," Walker said. "He exceeded in anything he loved in life."
Minneapolis Public Schools Superintendent Ed Graff, in a news release, called it a "devastating loss" and denounced gun violence in the city. "This bright young man had everything to live for and a promising future ahead of him," he said.
