College basketball player gunned down on Nashville freeway, police hunting for suspects

A Tennessee college basketball player was shot and killed while in a vehicle on a Nashville freeway, police said Monday. 

Andre Bell, 20, was a Fisk University sophomore from Jackson, Tennessee. He died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said. 

Bell was with two friends heading back to campus on Interstate 65 after attending a gymnastics event. As the trio were in Bell's Nissan Sentra, the friends noticed a black sedan in the left lane beside them, police said.