Ryan Bolden, a former first-round pick of the Los Angeles Angels, was shot and killed Wednesday night.
Children around 10 and 11 years old, were arguing about candy at an apartment complex in College Park, Ga., an Atlanta suburb, according to Fox Atlanta's Marc Teichner. Police say adults got involved and things turned violent around 8:30 p.m. ET. That’s when a 23-year-old man, later identified as Bolden, was shot.
Ryan Bolden on the field at the MHSAA State Championships in 2010. This guy was talented. pic.twitter.com/67EocKYB2N
— Phillip Waller (@pcwaller) December 19, 2014The man was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital where he later died.
Bolden was drafted in the first round, 40th overall, at the 2010 amateur draft from Madison Central High School in Mississippi. He hit .164/.273/.245 with 36 RBI and 23 stolen bases in 112 games in the Angels' farm system but was out of baseball in 2014.
No charges were filed as of Friday morning.
Bolden never got higher in the Angels organization than its rookie-level club, according to The Orange County Register.
Denny Hocking, the Angels' Class A manager, told The Register that Bolden "was a soft-spoken young man who was really well-liked within that locker room. People enjoyed being around him. He had an impact on people that he was around."
Those comments were in line with ones from his hometown.
"Ryan was a great kid, and I mean that," Gregg Perry, Bolden's baseball coach at Madison Central, told The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Miss. "You hate to see something like this happen to such a good kid. It's really upsetting. It's confusing. It's just hard to understand."