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Memorial held for slain Lenoir-Rhyne football player

Officers said Omari Alexander, 19, was found in the driver's seat of a 2015 Chevrolet Camaro with multiple gunshot wounds in Hickory.

HICKORY, N.C. — A memorial was held Monday morning for a Lenoir-Rhyne University football player who was killed in a shooting early Saturday morning in Hickory.

The family did not allow the media to attend the memorial in the PE Monroe Auditorium on campus.

Officers responded to a shots fired call along 17th Avenue Northeast near Good Shepard Church in Hickory just before 1 a.m. Saturday.

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Omari Drovon Alexander, 19, was found in the driver's seat of a black 2015 Chevrolet Camaro with the engine running, police said. Police said he had with multiple gunshot wounds.

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Omari Drovon Alexander

Paramedics pronounced Alexander dead at the scene. 

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Lenoir-Rhyne said Alexander was a sophomore from Concord, North Carolina, and a member of the university's football team.

”Omari was a special young man who had a bright future. He will always be remembered fondly by his teammates and the LR community,” Kim Pate, vice president for athletics for Lenoir-Rhyne, said in a statement.

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Alexander was also a graduate of Mallard Creek High School in Charlotte, according to Lenoir-Rhyne.

“The Lord is near to the broken-hearted, and saves the crushed in spirit,” - Psalm 34:18. Today, the campus and...

Posted by Lenoir-Rhyne University on Monday, November 22, 2021

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