Arkansas Baptist player victim in La. shooting

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Officials say an Arkansas Baptist College football player was among two people killed in a Christmas Eve shooting west of New Orleans.
Authorities say 20-year-old Thaddeus Watis of Convent, Louisiana, died after the shooting Tuesday night in Lutcher, about 40 miles west of New Orleans. Arkansas Baptist Coach Richard Wilson says Watis was a freshman football player at the private college in Little Rock.
Wilson tells the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that Watis played several positions but was primarily a linebacker. Wilson says that the team is in shock and that Watis was the type of player that coaches “bragged on every day.”
Investigators have not yet determined a motive for the shooting, which left another man dead and two others wounded.