Tyson Gay: US sprinter's little girl, 15, shot dead in Kentucky

Previous title holder sprinter Tyson Gay's 15-year-old little girl has been slaughtered in a shooting in the US condition of Kentucky, police say. 

Police in Lexington said Trinity Gay was hit in the neck amid a trade of flame between two vehicles in an eatery auto stop. 

She was taken to healing center where she later passed on, nearby media reported. 

Mr Gay, who is from Lexington, affirmed her demise to nearby Television slot Lex 18. 

"She didn't make it. I'm so confounded. She was simply here a week ago for fall break. It's so insane. I have no clue what happened," Lex18 cited him as saying.

Mr Gay is the US 100m record holder and is the joint second-quickest 100m runner ever, behind Usain Jolt. 

The US olympic style events games group tweeted its sympathies, sending "considerations and petitions" to Mr Gay and his friends and family "as they grieve the awful and silly loss of his little girl, Trinity". 

Mr Gay's girl was likewise a competitor and went after Lafayette Secondary School, where she was contemplating. 

"Our hearts are broken toward the beginning of today over the loss of Trinity to this terrible and silly demonstration of viciousness," Fayette District School Administrator Manny Caulk told the Lexington Proclaim Pioneer daily paper. 

"An existence of such potential cut so unfortunately off," tweeted Julian Tackett, magistrate of the Kentucky Secondary School Sports Affiliation. 

Different competitors likewise tweeted their sympathies.