This is bad.
Lavell White, 22, and Ali Mohammed, 19, two college teammates at Allan Hancock Community College in Santa Maria, Calif., were arrested Saturday in connection with a 2014 murder and are being held on $1 million bail, a KEYT News report said.
They were arrested for the murder of 23-year-old former Allan Hancock student Terrence Richardson. The two men were arrested by the Santa Maria Police Department SWAT team for the murder on Dec. 30.
School officials were reportedly unaware the two were even being looked at.
“We were not aware that those two individuals were being investigated until they were arrested,” associate dean Kim Ensing told the Lompoc Record.
Both players have been kicked off of the team as well.
“The arrests clearly do not meet the high standards our student-athletes have maintained for many years.
“In light of the arrests, the two student-athletes have been removed from the men’s basketball team for conduct detrimental to the team. Their alleged behavior does not reflect, in any way, Allan Hancock College’s mission and core values, nor the thousands of students-athletes who have thrived and graduated for decades.”
White, a 6-foot-6 guard, was the team’s leading scorer and just put up a double-double (11 points, 10 rebounds) as last Wednesday in the team’s win over Moorpark College.