Video: 20-year-old basketball star Wayde Sims shot and killed during a fight in Louisiana

A 20-year-old American basketballer was shot and killed during a fight near the Southern University campus early Friday morning.

Wayde Sims, an LSU basketball player from Baton Rouge, was shot during a clash outside a Subway restaurant across from Southern's football stadium around 1:25 a.m. ET Friday.

A video obtained by WBRZ shows several men fighting in the street outside the restaurant. A gunshot can be heard, and Sims can be seen falling to the ground before other men escaped.

According to Baton Rouge police, Sims was transported to a local hospital, where he died from a gunshot wound.

"We are all devastated," LSU coach Will Wade said in a statement. "We need your prayers for Wayde, for his family, for all of us. We are heartbroken."

Wade said he was told about the shooting early Friday morning and then went to the hospital. He told the team at 6:30 a.m., when they had originally scheduled a morning workout.

"We want to remember Wayde, what a great person he was," Wade said at a news conference. 

"Besides the fact he had the best impression of me on the team, he was just an unbelievable person and was continuing to grow and had just done a great job building a bridge with our team. That's what makes it so tough for all of us, and for our team as well, is everybody liked him. Anybody he came in contact with, automatically just loved him, loved his personality. He was just a blast to be around at all times."


Watch the graphic video below.