High school basketball star, 16, is gunned down at a party in LA

A star basketball player was gunned down over the weekend while attending a party with some teammates in south .Quincy Reese Jr., 16, met up with some of his teammates from Crenshaw High School Saturday night for a birthday party at the 77 Lounge, a local nightclub, before he was fatally shot.It remains unclear what led up to the shooting, but it has been suggested that the organizers of the high school party were charging a cover to get in and that the teenager was walking away when he was shot and killed, with his cousin Eric Johnson telling how the gunmen ‘chased him down like a dog and shot him in the head.’Police were notified about the shooting at around 11.45 Friends and family members placed candles outside Crenshaw High School in his memory They remembered the teenager as a star basketball player with a bright future ahead  Police have not released a description of the suspects or released a possible motive for penipu the shootingHe was already being recruited by 58 different colleges, his father said, and was nicknamed ‘Batman’ for his array of talents on the court.’This kid was a promising student athlete; the world was his oyster,’ Reese’s friend Derrick Cooper added.’He had everything to look forward to and some coward takes his life…

who does that?’Friends and family members are now demanding justice for the slain teenager.’Come forward, you guys know who did it, you know what happened,’ Johnson said. ‘Open your mouth, open your mouth.’