Father mourns man killed at vigil for former Wise HS football players – NBC4 Washington

The father of a man killed at a vigil Friday night says his son spent the week mourning the loss of three friends who were killed in a car crash.

Shahid Iman Omar Jr., 24, was among the hundreds of people who gathered at Dr. Henry Wise Jr. High School in Upper Marlboro on Friday to honor the lives of Minnesota Vikings freshmen Khyree Jackson, Isaiah Hazel and Anthony Lytton Jr., who combined to win a state championship at Wise.

After the vigil, Omar and a woman were shot, Prince George’s County police said. Omar did not survive.

“He had been suffering and crying all week. And when he put on that T-shirt, walked down the driveway to their candlelight vigil, looked at me and said, ‘Dad, I’ll see you later,’ I had no idea he wasn’t coming back,” said his father, Travis Clarke.

Omar had a two-year-old daughter and a son on the way.

“On Saturday we were supposed to have a baby shower for his unborn son,” Clarke said. “But instead of having a baby shower, we were mourning his death.”

Omar loved his family and community very much and worked as a counselor for at-risk youth at a residential school, his father said.

“Our Thanksgiving will never be the same,” he said through tears. “Our Christmas will never be the same. Never. Never. Never.”

There is no information yet about the motive or the suspect.

“This is unbearable. Unbearable,” Clarke said. “So please, someone who knows something, please say something.”

Police found a weapon at the scene. A $25,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest and indictment.

Police have not yet identified the woman who survived the shooting.

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