UPDATE: Tues., March 22, 9:00 p.m. According to NBC Bay Area, two of the passengers in Fifita’s car were his teammates, and are expected to recover.

After learning of the attack on Sunday, three football coaches traveled to the hospital and learned Fifita shielded his cousin from the gunfire. Iona Uigalelei, Mt. SAC football team’s defensive coordinator told NBC, “ They said he told the cousin to lean down. He leaned over her, and that’s when he got shot.”

A suspect has still not been identified, as well the motive for the attack is still under investigation. The GoFundMe page made to help Fifita’s family pay for funeral expenses have raised $18,496 of its 20K goal.

On March 20, around 2 a.m., Mt. SAC student William Fifita, 20, was gunned down in Hawthorne, Calif. after leaving a church event in Torrance with friends. According to KTLA, someone in another vehicle pulled up to Fifita’s car and opened fire in what police described as a “senseless murder.”

“Good people die like this, sometimes you wonder and ask why,” an unidentified family member of Fifita’s told the LA Times.

Mt. SAC released the following statement on their Facebook page:

“We are deeply saddened by the sudden passing of William ‘Junior’ Fifita, a young man with a wonderful future. Junior was a freshman student enrolled in his first term at Mt. San Antonio College and a member of the Mounties Football Team. Junior was well liked and well respected by faculty, staff and students. He was an active student on campus and off to a great start in his collegiate career. It is a tragic loss to the entire college community. Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to the entire Fifita Family. We also keep the two surviving gunshot victims in our thoughts and wish them a quick recovery. Mt. SAC is providing support services to grieving students and staff.”

Fifita, who is from Adelanto, was a student and football player at Mt. SAC. He was an active member of his church and recently returned from a two-year church mission in Guatemala.

The shooting took place at Rosecrans Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard. Deputies have said that once Fifita’s vehicle stopped at a red light, a dark-colored sedan moved alongside it as at least one person opened fire.

According to Deputy Juanita Navarro-Suarez in the Daily Breeze, Fifita was struck in the upper body and pronounced dead at the scene. The other two male passengers in the vehicle also suffered upper body gunshot wounds and were taken to a hospital in unknown conditions. The woman in the vehicle was not injured.

The motives behind the shooting are still unknown. Hawthorne police are working with homicide detectives on the investigation.

A GoFundMe page has been established to help Fifita’s family with funeral costs.