US Olympic Tyson Gay’s Daughter shot dead
The 15-year-old year daughter of Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay was fatally shot in the neck, authorities and the athlete’s agent said on Sunday, and police have arrested a man in connection with the shooting. The daughter of Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay was following in her father’s fast footsteps before she was struck down and killed by a stray bullet early Sunday outside a Kentucky eatery.
Trinity Gay died at the University Of Kentucky Medical Center, the coroner’s office for Fayette County said in a statement. The athlete’s agent, Mark Wetmore, confirmed in a text message to The Associated Press that Gay’s daughter had died.
Police say 15-year-old Trinity Gay, a star high school runner herself, was struck by a bullet during a shootout at about 4 a.m. in the parking lot of the Cook Out restaurant and pronounced dead at University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital.
Police on Sunday evening announced that Dvonta Middlebrooks, 21, was arrested and charged with wanton endangerment and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. A statement said investigators determined that Middlebrooks was in the parking lot and fired multiple shots at the time of the incident. Another man questioned by police has not been charged.
“She was so innocent, she was so innocent,” her mother, Shoshana Boyd, told the Daily News in a tearful interview. “ I just want people to stop shooting and realize who they’re hurting. It’s just random. They don’t understand, they don’t understand who they’re hurting.” Boyd said her daughter wanted to become a surgeon-but also hoped to match the athletic glory of her father. “I should never have to bury my child,” Boyd said. “She wanted to be the fastest woman in the world, and they took that away from her.”
Trinity was a top sprinter at Lafayette High School, the same high school where her father blazed a trail before becoming four-times U.S. champion in the 100 meters and representing Team USA in three Summer Olympics.
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