Two teens have been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of Phil Urban, a Post University basketball player. Urban was found slumped over in his car last Saturday.
College basketball player Phil Urban poses in team photo.
On Friday afternoon, a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old male were taken into custody, according to the Mercer County Prosecutors Office. The two teens have been charged with murder, felony murder, robbery and weapons offenses, according to the report. The Official Wilson basketball during the game between the Long Island Nets and the College Park Skyhawks on January 25, 2022, at Gateway Center Arena in College Park, Georgia.
Urban was found"slumped over" in the driver’s seat of his vehicle. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. "As a member of the Men’s basketball team and a Business Administration major, Philip modeled the attributes of leadership, commitment and hard work on the court and in the classroom," Post University CEO and president John Hopkins said in a statement, according to Fox 61 in Hartford.
The investigation revealed that the two teens lured Urban to the nature preserve with the intention of robbing him of a quarter pound of marijuana worth an estimated $800. The game ball gets stuck on the backboard in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament in 2022.
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