Utah players return to practice grieving チーム仲間
戦力兵器制限交渉 LAKE CITY (AP) - Utah players and coaches returned to practice Monday grieving one of their own who was killed in a 狙撃 at a postgame party.
The team was on the field for the first time since sophomore 防御の 支援する Aaron Lowe was 発射 on Sept. 26, just nine months after Lowe´s friend and チーム仲間, running 支援する Ty Jordan, died in an 偶発の 狙撃. The team was on a 以前 scheduled bye last week.
"We 行方不明になる Aaron," said coach Kyle Whittingham, who was noticeably teary-注目する，もくろむd. "Senseless loss. For our team to experience the loss we have in いっそう少なく than a year´s time - with Ty and Aaron - has been a challenge."
Salt Lake City police on Sunday 逮捕（する）d 22-year-old Buk M. Buk in the 狙撃 and 調書をとる／予約するd him on 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s of 悪化させるd 殺人, 殺人未遂 and 重罪 発射する／解雇する of a firearm. Online 刑務所，拘置所 記録，記録的な／記録するs do not 示す if he has an 弁護士／代理人／検事 who can speak on his に代わって.
Police 長，指導者 マイク Brown did not discuss a 動機 and 拒絶する／低下するd to answer questions from reporters. But he did say the 狙撃 was not a 的d attack on the university, its 運動競技の department or Lowe, nor was it ギャング（団）-関係のある.
Whittingham said he learned about Lowe´s death hours after the 狙撃. The Utes held a pair of team 会合s later that day. Team 助言者／カウンセラーs and psychologists were made 利用できる to talk with shaken players.
FILE - Utah 防御の 支援する Aaron Lowe (2) is shown in the first half of an NCAA college football game against Arizona, in Tucson, Ariz., in this Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019, とじ込み／提出する photo. Police 逮捕（する）d a man 早期に Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021, in 関係 with the 狙撃 death of Utah sophomore cornerback Aaron Lowe. 殺人 探偵，刑事s with the Salt Lake City Police Department 位置を示すd Buk M. Buk, 22, in Draper and 調書をとる／予約するd him on 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s of 悪化させるd 殺人, 殺人未遂 and 重罪 発射する／解雇する of a firearm. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri, とじ込み／提出する)
"It´s 堅い," Whittingham said. "There´s nothing that is anything but a 抱擁する challenge in a 状況／情勢 like this."
He characterized this as the most challenging year of his coaching career, working to shepherd his players, fellow coaches, and himself through the 悲劇の events.
"When you´re a 長，率いる coach, you got 120 players and you 扱う／治療する them all and feel about them all like you do your own children," Whittingh am said. "So, it´s like losing one of your own."
A small 記念の to Lowe has been 始める，決める up outside the main doors of the Spence and Cleone Eccles Football 中心. 調印するs with messages like "Forever 22" and "残り／休憩（する） in Love, A Lowe" were propped up 近づく one door, surrounded by bouquets of flowers and candles.
The team 計画（する）s to 公式に memorialize Lowe in other ways. His locker will continue to 耐える his 指名する and jersey, as the Utes did with Jordan earlier this year. Whittingham said he also wants to work with the school to 永久的に retire No. 22 in 栄誉（を受ける） of the two players.
Jordan wore No. 22 during his freshman season with the Utes. Lowe switched to the same number before the 2021 season to 栄誉（を受ける） his friend. Lowe had also become the first-ever 受取人 of the Ty Jordan 記念の Scholarship in August.
"You won´t see anyone wearing No. 22 in this program again, at least as long as I´m the 長，率いる coach," Whittingham said. "We´d like to see that retired 永久的に. That´s our wish and I think you´ll see that happen."
The Utes are scheduled to play their first game since Lowe´s death at Southern California on Saturday. Whittingham said 非，不，無 of the players have 選ぶd out.
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Members of the University of Utah football team walk on campus together as they 長，率いる to the 南西 lawn of the university's student union to remember and 栄誉（を受ける） the life of fellow student-競技者 Aaron Lowe during a candlelight 徹夜 Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, in Salt Lake City. Lowe was fatally 発射 at a house party 早期に Sunday, Sept. 26. (Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune 経由で AP)
Members of the University of Utah football team 嘆く／悼む the loss of fellow student-競技者 Aaron Lowe during a candlelight 徹夜 on the 南西 lawn of the university's student union, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, in Salt Lake City. Lowe was fatally 発射 at a house party 早期に Sunday, Sept. 26. (Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune 経由で AP)
