Sports Stars We've Lost successful 2022

Post University athletics is mourning the nonaccomplishment of 1 of their hoops players.

Phil Urban, a freshman connected the Eagles hoops team, was fatally changeable implicit the play successful New Jersey. He was 20 years old.

According to the Mercer County Prosecutor's office, Hopewell Police responded to the Hopewell Valley Nature Preserve connected Dec. 17 astatine astir 7 p.m. Upon arrival, officers located a achromatic Mercedes C300 connected a way with a antheral slumped implicit successful the driver's seat.

The unfortunate was transported to Capital Health Regional Medical Center wherever helium was pronounced dormant from a gunshot coiled a abbreviated clip later, the prosecutor's bureau said. The unfortunate was identified arsenic Urban, a 20-year-old freshman astatine Post University successful Connecticut.

In a connection posted connected Twitter, the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office said a preliminary probe indicates that "Urban arranged to conscionable an acquaintance astatine the sphere and was changeable astatine immoderate constituent during the encounter." No arrests person been made and the probe remains ongoing.

Soon aft Urban's decease was confirmed, Post University released a connection to NBC Connecticut.

"The Post University assemblage is heartbroken to larn of the decease of freshman student, Philip Urban," the assemblage said. "As a subordinate of the Men's hoops squad and a Business Administration major, Philip modeled the attributes of leadership, committedness and hard enactment connected the tribunal and successful the classroom."

Back successful April, the men's hoops squad welcomed Urban to the squad successful a connection connected societal media.