CrimeWatch

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5 / KCBS) ― Monday was the first day back to school after Saturday night's fatal shooting of a parent outside a Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep girls basketball game.

The team is now rallying around the victim's daughter, Tierra Rogers, who is a heavily recruited junior guard for nationally-ranked #1 Sacred Heart girls basketball program.

Terrell Rogers had been watching his daughter play against Archbishop Mitty High School of San Jose when he went outside the gym during half time and was shot dead.

Tierra was led away from Saturday night's game in the third quarter, unaware of what had happened to her father outside.

Teammate Danicka Navales Lugtu said Rogers' father would be missed.

"It's going to be hard for us because he was always at our games and supported us 100 percent. He pushed us to be better. Without him now I don't know what's going to happen. But it is going to build the team closer together," said Lugtu.

Sacred Heart Principal Ken Hogarty said they had counselors and campus ministers available for the school's 1,260 kids on Monday, but he indicated that the students and team members were turning to each other for support.

"They're champions not just because of the hardware, but they're champions because of who they are," said Hogarty. "Obviously that is going to be very tested now. But we hope with the support that they're going to get that they will take this as champions too."

Meanwhile, Bayview Hunters Point residents are stunned by Rogers' death, as they remember his anti-violence efforts. Rogers, who was a reformed gang member, founded Peacekeepers.

"This young man had turned his life around and is doing what we so often ask of them, which is to help others and reach out. That's exactly what he was doing," said San Francisco Supervisor Sophie Maxwell.

Peacekeepers is a group working to stop violence in the Alice Griffith Housing development, where Rogers grew up.

"I'm remembering him as a man who was committed to his community," said Takai Tyler, the co-executive director of Hunter's Point Family, the non-profit that oversees Peacekeepers. "He was committed to youth in the community and to intervening and doing whatever he could to make a difference."

Rogers was also being remembered for his sense of humor, and for being able to lighten the mood and bring people together with laughter.

A police spokesman said Rogers was shot multiple times by two men while walking in a parking lot across the street from the Sacred Heart gymnasium on Ellis Street.

Police believe the 39-year-old father of two, who had recently moved his family from San Francisco to Pacifica, was likely targeted by the killers because a man with Rogers was not hurt.

No arrests were made as of Monday evening, and police would not comment on a possible motive or on reports that Rogers may have been trying to stop some car theives at the time he was shot.

The murder cast a dark cloud over what has iotherwise been a dream season for the 15-0 Fightin' Irish girls team, the two-time defending state champions. Their number one national ranking in USA Today is among the first for a Bay Area high school sports team.

A message posted Monday on the school's website, titled "SHCP Community in Mourning," concluded with a request for help to solve the murder: "We ask that anyone who has any information that may be helpful to the investigation please contact the San Francisco Police Department. Direct calls to Inspectors Antonio Casillas or Robert Lynch at (415) 553-1149 or call the police department's anonymous tip line at (415) 575-4444."

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