The T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA), in a re­lease on Thurs­day evening, ex­pressed its con­do­lences fol­low­ing the trag­ic death of teenaged foot­baller Zwade Al­leyne.

The 17-year-old passed away on Thurs­day af­ter he was struck in the head by a stray bul­let on May 10 near his home in Mal­oney.

The TTFA re­mem­bers Al­leyne as a promis­ing play­er whose life had been cut short by a sense­less act of vi­o­lence.

“It is with pro­found sad­ness and a heavy heart that the TT Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion ex­tends our deep­est con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly, friends, team­mates and school com­mu­ni­ty of Zwade Al­leyne.

“Zwade, a promis­ing 17-year-old stu­dent of Ari­ma North Sec­ondary and a vi­brant part of our na­tion’s youth, trag­i­cal­ly lost his life to­day at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex. His pass­ing fol­lows a sense­less act of vi­o­lence that has left us all griev­ing, out­raged and search­ing for an­swers"

"Zwade’s life was filled with po­ten­tial—on and off the field. He was a young man full of dreams, pas­sion, and pur­pose, and his un­time­ly death is a dev­as­tat­ing blow not just to his loved ones, but to the wider sport­ing and na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty," said TTFA Pres­i­dent Kieron Ed­wards, who is cur­rent­ly in Asun­cion, Paraguay at­tend­ing the FI­FA Con­gress.

“We mourn the loss of a young soul tak­en far too soon. Our thoughts and prayers re­main with his fam­i­ly, team­mates, and the en­tire Ari­ma North Sec­ondary fra­ter­ni­ty dur­ing this unimag­in­ably dif­fi­cult time.

"May Zwade’s mem­o­ry for­ev­er in­spire us to work to­ward a safer, more com­pas­sion­ate so­ci­ety – where no child’s life is cut short by vi­o­lence,” the re­lease said.