Poway High School confirmed Tuesday that a popular student who was shot in the head while partying with friends has died.
Luke Lipscomb was shot at a classmate's home on November 4, and had been clinging to life ever since. His friends thought he was battling back, but he took a turn for the worse.
At a candelight vigil in front of the school Tuesday night, the honors student and varsity Lacrosse team member was remembered as "a genuinely good guy," intelligent, athletic, and funny.
"He had a really contagious smile," said classmate Robert Merrigan.
"He just made everyone happy," added junior Sarah Wakefield.
Friends say they were hopeful Luke Lipscomb was on the road to recovery, when on his 17th birthday last week, they received word he had regained consciousness.
"He woke up, got to see his parents, told him he loved them, gave them a hug," classmate Harrison Flaherty said.
That was on Friday, but by Monday, Luke's family informed Poway High School he had taken a turn for the worse and had died.
"This has really shocked us , we didn't see it coming at all," a friend said.
They say because 11/11 was Luke's birthday, 11 was his favorite number. He wore it proudly on his Lacrosse jersey, and now his fellow teammates are wearing number 11 in his memory.
Friends say Luke had a 3.9 GPA, was smart and funny, with his whole future ahead of him. But one week before his birthday, on Friday, November 4, he was found bleeding with a gunshot wound to the head and a rifle next to his body. Investigators say he was with friends at a house on Midland Road, smoking what they believed to be marijuana laced with hallucinogenic drugs.
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