January 14, 2026
Andre Bell will likely be remembered by the varsity on Jan. 24.
Fisk University’s males’s basketball crew is pausing its basketball season after sophomore ahead Andre Bell was fatally shot on Jan. 11.
Bell was 20 years outdated.
As the crew and HBCU neighborhood grapple with this loss, the athletics division opted to postpone Thursday’s sport in opposition to Voorhees University to provide its neighborhood time to grieve, reports TMZ Sports.
The Fisk Athletics Department additionally posted Bell’s closing minutes as a Bulldog because it mentioned goodbye to the promising participant.
Bell left a gymnastics occasion to return to the Fisk campus. As he bought on I-65, a Black sedan pulled up on the facet of his car and opened fireplace. Bell later died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
The crew’s subsequent house sport stays scheduled for Jan. 24. There, the varsity pays tribute to Bell and the basketball crew will put on a particular badge together with his jersey quantity, #1.
Bell’s mother and father referred to as him a “excellent child” who fell in love in basketball when he was 4 years outdated.
“It’s his coronary heart,” his mother, Amber Lewis, instructed WKRN. “It’s not really a talent; you’ll be able to’t educate coronary heart. And when Andre is on the court docket, it’s all coronary heart. He’s giving 110% even when it’s for 2 minutes.”
Added Lewis, “We knew he was particular to us, however I don’t assume we knew the magnitude of how particular he was to so many different folks. I imply, we knew he was particular to everybody he got here in touch [with], however I don’t assume we realized how far the attain was.”
As the investigation continues, Bell’s mother and father have urged the Nashville neighborhood to return ahead with any info relating to their son’s loss of life.
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