SOUTHWEST PHILADELPHIA - A 16-year-old basketball standout was shot and killed near a playground in Southwest Philadelphia Thursday night just two weeks before graduationWest Philadelphia High School basketball coach Adrian Burke says his Thursday phone call with his player 16-year-old Quamir Mitchell ended the same way it always does.
He just didn't know it would their last."He was a real likable person, real likable person like you meet him and you just gotta like him," Burke said. "You just knew he was going to be successful.
He wasn't going to let nothing stop him."Just two weeks before graduation, Mitchell, known as "Day Day" was shot and killed around 7:30 p.m.