In a letter that the school sent home to students, the principal revealed that Scurry scored the highest on the SAT College Placement tests out of all of the students in the schoo

According to CBS and NBC Philadelphia, Scurry and his mother were on their way to Samuel Fels High School in Feltonville around 7:15 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 14, when the athlete was shot multiple times on the 5000 block of Tacony Creek Park and Roosevelt Boulevard.

Noah Scurry, a 17-year-old basketball star and standout student at Samuel Fels High School in Philadelphia, was fatally shot in a targeted attack while heading to school with his mother. Police recovered a white Jeep believed to be linked to the shooting,