Former high school football player killed in Daytona Beach

Trey Ingraham, a former football player at South Florida high schools, was one of the victims of a double homicide in Daytona Beach.

Ingraham, 19, was a student and player at Santaluces Community High School in Lantana and St. John Paul II in Boca Raton.

He was a former student at Bethune Cookman University and an amateur boxer, WNDB radio/NewsDaytonaBeach.com and the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported.

Daytona Beach Police Chief Craig Capri said Saturday that Ingraham and his roommate, Jordan Paden, also 19, were both killed Friday in the double homicide.

They were found dead in their apartment, Capri said. At news conferences on Saturday, he said there was a suspect in the case who was an acquaintance of the two murdered men. “They knew each other.”

“I’m not going to release [the name of ] a suspect at this point in time. I can’t,” the chief said. He said the suspect was “not a threat to anybody” else.

He said the victims were killed with firearms at about 8 p.m. Friday. Capri said police were following up on an unrelated incident at the Jade Park Apartments when they found the men.

Ingraham went by the nickname “Ace.”

He played wide receiver and cornerback for the Santaluces and Pope John Paul II high school football Ingraham Oakland Raiders defensive tackle Josh Shaw takes a shot from 8-year-old Trey Ingraham during the 5th annual Mike Rumph Football Camp at the Ezell Hester Community Center in Boynton Beach in July 2007. Ingraham was one of the victims of a double homicide in Daytona Beach.

teams. He also played in the Florida Vs. Georgia All Star Game that was played at Atlantic High School 2 years ago, WPTV-Ch. 5 reported.

WOFL-Ch 35 reported that Glenn Hagler, Sr., who owns the gym where where Ingraham trained, said he was a promising fighter. “A young and inspiring fighter, someone I thought definitely had all the tools to become a world champion,” he said.

Benjamin Wright, who helped train Ingraham at

the gym, said he was a “gentleman” with a lot of promise, both inside and outside of the ring. “We never saw any signs of struggle,” told the News Journal. “We don’t know what (caused) something like this to happen.”

Quentin Betancur, a coach at Park Vista High School in Lake Worth, was among many people who posted on Twitter about Ingraham’s death. “Peace to a great football player and an even better kid,” Betancur

wrote. Appearing at a news conference with Capri, the interim president of Bethune-Cookman, Hubert Grimes, said counseling services would be available for students.

“We want to make sure that anyone emotionally attached to this situation gets the help they need,” he said. “Once a Wildcat, always a Wildcat.”

SUN SENTINEL FILE