TUSKEGEE, Ala. – Police are continuing to search for suspects in the deadly shooting of a Tuskegee University student gunned down at a block party over the weekend.
Tuskegee police and the Alabama Bureau of Investigation are investigating the Friday night slaying of 21-year-old Bobby Smith of Mableton, Ga., just northwest of Atlanta, WSFA-TV reported. He was shot in the back and later pronounced dead at a local hospital.
“The Tuskegee University community is mourning the unfortunate loss of one of our own,” said Tuskegee University President Gilbert Rochon said in a statement. “We are all deeply affected by this terrible incident. Our prayers and condolences are with the family.”
Smith, a finance major who played for Tuskegee’s tennis team, was the father of a baby who is less than a month old.
He was a 2010 graduate of South Cobb High School, school Principal Ashley Hosey wrote in an online tribute, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.