Port of Spain (Trinidad), April 12।  An aspiring British cricketer, Adrian St. John, died after being shot by robbers.
The 22-year-old is said to have died on Sunday. He used to play for the Chris Gayle Academy in London.

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Adrian was attacked after he decided to stop his car to pick up friends. He was shot as he tried to drive away after being robbed, reported BBC on Tuesday.

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West Indies cricketer Gayle tweeted on Monday: "Such sad news to hear. My condolences to his family & friends. Adrian St John was the captain of the academy. #Sigh."

Donovan Miller, programme manager for the Chris Gayle Foundation, was quoted as saying by the BBC on Monday: "I'm really finding it hard to come to terms with it, how someone could do something like that to such a lovely person."

"He wanted me to support him to go to the Caribbean and to kind of push hard with his cricket."

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