College Baseball Player Jatonne Sterling Shot & Killed In Atlanta

College baseball player Jatonne Sterling, a member of the Clark Atlanta University group, was shot and killed on Tuesday. He was simply 20 years old.

The Atlanta Police Department stated the terrible shooting occurred less than a mile from CAU’s school in Georgia … near a church.

According to polices, officers reacted to the scene at around 1:42 p.m. … and discovered Sterling struggling with a gunshot injury. They stated he was “not alert, conscious, or breathing and was pronounced deceased on the scene.”

Cops state they have actually introduced an examination into the shooting, however no arrests have actually been made yet.

CAU, an HBCU, and its athletics department mourned Sterling’s death in a social media post, saying, “Gone too soon.”

“Please keep Jatonne’s family in your prayers. 🙏🏾,” the school added.

According to CAU, Sterling was a utility player on the baseball team who was majoring in computer science.

Before getting a baseball scholarship to play for the CAU Panthers, Sterling was a standout athlete at Chicago’s Morgan Park High School … where he won a championship in 2021.

His former high school baseball coach, Earnest Radcliff, told 11Alive he spoke with Sterling a week ago and looked at him like a son.

“I don’t have any words to describe the hurt for this young man,” Radcliff stated. “No parent should have to bury their child.”