jericho scott , who became an internet star after being told he could n't pitch for his little league team because he had a 40mph fastball at age nine , was shot dead in new haven early on sunday .
scott was killed while he sat in a white volkswagen with a 20-year-old friend , justin compress , who was shot in the shoulder , hand wrist but is now in stable condition that the budding star had five no-hitters in the team 's first eight games of the season before being told to sit out .