article_snippet.sent: Jericho Scott 17th birthday thanks to a drive-by shooting.
article_snippet.sent: Jericho Scott, 16, who became an internet star after being told Jericho Scott couldn't pitch for Jericho Scott Youth Baseball League of New Haven officials team because Jericho Scott had a 40mph fastball at age nine, was shot dead in New Haven early on Sunday.
article_snippet.sent: Jericho Scott was killed while Jericho Scott sat in a white Volkswagen with a 20-year-old friend, Justin Compress, who was shot in the shoulder, hand and wrist but is now in stable condition.
article_snippet.sent: Jericho Scott was killed early on Sunday while Jericho Scott sat in a car in New Haven, Connecticut .
article_snippet.sent: During a 2011 follow-up piece about Jericho Scott in the New Journal, his manager father Leroy also referenced the streets of New Haven and how some of the streets of New Haven have 'fourteen-year-olds holding pistols'.
article_snippet.sent: Jericho Scott's parents wrote: 'Jericho, at only 16, has given so much to his family, friends and the community' The murder was the city's fourth homicide of 2015 and the city's  first youth killing of the year, the Yale News reported.
article_snippet.sent: The Scotts wrote: 'Jericho, at only 16, has given so much to his family, friends and the communitythe community. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Jericho Scott, 16, was shot dead in New Haven, Connecticut, on Sunday .
  