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18-year-old Quentavious Reese, a senior basketball player for Benjamin Russell High School, was shot Tuesday and died Wednesday morning. A UWA football player has been charged with the killing. (Photo, Twitter)

Benjamin Russell High School senior basketball player Quentavious Reese was found wounded in the backseat of a car Tuesday night in Alexander City, and a football player from the University of West Alabama has now been charged with murder in the incident.

Reese, 18, was found with a gunshot wound to the head in the car outside Russell Medical Center. He was airlifted to UAB Medical Center in Birmingham, where he died Wednesday afternoon.

Reese had traveled with three other friends from one of their homes and passed by a house where UWA freshman football player Anthony Parker was shooting a gun, according to police detective Riley Foshee.

Witnesses said that gunshots hit the the back windshield and Reese was struck by a bullet. The friends then drove him to the nearby hospital.

Foshee told WSFA television in Montgomery that Parker, also 18, was in the process of purchasing the gun when he shot it.

He said the shooting was a tragic situation that could have been avoided.

"From witness testimony, it was just a reckless act of discharging a firearm and just not paying attention," Foshee said. "If you're going to shoot a gun, make sure you shoot it in a direction that's not in the direction of a road or traveling car. Just be aware of your surroundings whenever you're discharging a firearm."

Anthony Parker. (Photo, UWA Athletics)

It appears that Reese and Parker knew each other, even though they weren't together at the time of the shooting.

Parker is a freshman offensive lineman at West Alabama who also attended Benjamin Russell, where he was a two-time all-state selection and team captain during his senior year.

He has been charged with murder after Reese's death on Wednesday; he was originally charged with arrested and charged with shooting into an occupied vehicle Tuesday night.

This story will be updated.