[bigboydan]

This truely is sad news

R.I.P.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Southern California freshman point guard Ryan Francis was shot and killed early Saturday while riding in a car in Louisiana, where he was visiting his mother.


Ryan Francis was named honorable mention Pac-10 All-Freshman team this season at USC. (Stephen Dunn / Getty Images)
The 19-year-old Francis was killed about 3:30 a.m. in Baton Rouge, said Tim Tessalone, USC's director of sports information.

Francis was among four passengers whose vehicle pulled up to a stoplight. The driver of another vehicle got out and opened fire, said Lt. Keith Bates of the Baton Rouge Police Department. The driver of the car Francis was in attempted to drive away but Francis, who was sitting in the back seat, was shot multiple times.

Bates said no one else in the vehicle was injured.

One person has been arrested, Bates told the Los Angeles Times and The Advocate of Baton Rouge.

Francis was the starting point guard this past season for USC (17-13) and averaged more than seven points a game. He ranked seventh in the Pac-10 in assists (111) and fifth in steals (47).

[The Great One]

Sad, just sad.

Not to turn this into a race thread, but why must these homeboys do this every freakin day.

Their brain just doesn't work the way it should. Such a senseless, pointless thing to do.

[Illusion]

Terrible news indeed.