Update:Reginald "Shay" Nicholson is On Life Support

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Updated: 6:11 PM Nov 21, 2008 Update:Reginald "Shay" Nicholson is On Life Support A victim of a Harrisonburg shooting is on life support at the University of Virginia Medical Center almost two weeks after he was shot in the head. Our sister station in Harrisonburg is reporting that Nicholson is brain dead. Posted: 4:00 PM Nov 21, 2008

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November 21, 2008

A victim of a Harrisonburg shooting is on life support at the University of Virginia Medical Center almost two weeks after he was shot in the head. Our sister station in Harrisonburg is reporting that Nicholson is brain dead.

Nineteen-year-old Reginald "Shay" Nicholson was a student at Liberty University. In high school, he was a football standout at R.E. Lee High School.

Five people have been arrested in relation to the shooting, including eighteen-year-old Zachary Turner of Charlottesville

Turner is accused of shooting Nicholson at the Hunters Ridge Apartments on November 9th. According to a friend of Nicholson's, the perpetrators were gang members, and shot Nicholson after an argument at a party.

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Posted by: JD Location: Ironmonger on Nov 25, 2008 at 10:50 PM

What happened here is unbelievably tragic. I did not know Shay, but this hits home for all of us at JMU. I am a sophomore and this kind of thing just isn't supposed to happen. People our age, we have our entire lives ahead of us. Like Shay, we all have big plans. We're going to do our part to change the world. Then something like this happens. It is unacceptable. This should never happen. He had his entire life ahead of him and these worthless POS's who are just a waste of life, every one of them, do something like this. Terrible.

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