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Recent Douglas S. Freeman High School football player Nick Ackies died Friday night in a homicide in Norfolk, according to Norfolk State University. He was 18 years old.

According to Norfolk police, the shooting took place just a few miles from Norfolk State’s campus. Dispatchers received a call around 7:10 p.m. Officers who arrived on the scene found a man suffering from what appeared to be a gunshot wound.

Ackies was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police arrested a former L.C. Bird High School and Norfolk State football player, JayQuan Anderson, in connection with the incident. Anderson, 22, has been charged with second-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. He is being held without bond in the Norfolk City Jail.

Ackies was a standout athlete in football and baseball at Douglas Freeman. He graduated in the spring and attended Norfolk State, where he was a freshman defensive lineman on the football team.

At Douglas Freeman, Ackies had a larger-than-life personality, Freeman baseball coach Ray Moore said. “He was just someone who was very jovial in his demeanor all the time, a fun-loving guy,” he said.