CHARLOTTE ó Two 2007 graduates of A.L. Brown High School in Kannapolis ó one of them a star football player ó were gunned down in a car while stopped at an intersection after midnight Thursday.
Kevin Javier Cano and Jamie Aubrey-Marquis Gill, both 20, were pronounced dead at the scene after the bullet-riddled car crashed into a nearby light post, the Charlotte Observer reported. Cano, whose family was from Honduras, was a defensive lineman for A.L. Brown’s football team. Gill would have turned 21 on Nov. 19.
Charlotte police charged 29-year-old Richard Henry Jordan Jr. with two counts of murder. Police told the Observer that the two men knew each other and that the crime wasn’t random.
Jordan has an extensive criminal record, including convictions for armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon, the Observer reported.
The shooting occurred a few yards from Johnson & Wales University’s Charlotte campus and area businesses. The barrage of bullets struck two city buses with drivers but no passengers and damaged cars parked along the street where a local tavern was open with customers, police and witnesses told the Observer.
People at a Friday night football game between A.L. Brown and Concord high schools held a moment of silence for the two victims. The Independent Tribune reported that both were popular students.
Gill was voted “Class Clown” by his classmates and Cano had been voted “Best Personality” in 2007.