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A member of a St. Lucia soccer team was shot to death early Monday in Brooklyn, the police said, only hours after he had scored the winning goal in a semifinal of an international tournament.
Phillip Tisson, 28, was in the back seat of a parked car on Utica Avenue near Carroll Street about 4:30 a.m. when a gunman shot him in the head, the police said. A 24-year-old woman who was also in the car suffered a graze wound to the shoulder and was taken to Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center. Three other women who were in the car were uninjured.
Mr. Tisson had been celebrating the victory of his team, Team St. Lucia USA, with half a dozen teammates at Tropiks Bar and Grill, two blocks south on Utica Avenue.
Sheldon Emmanuel, a teammate of Mr. Tisson’s, said that Mr. Tisson left the club around 3:30 a.m., while Mr. Emmanuel and five other teammates remained there, along with Mr. Tisson’s brother. A short while later, Mr. Tisson’s brother received a phone call informing him that Mr. Tisson had been shot.
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None of them could believe it, Mr. Emmanuel said, adding that no one had seen Mr. Tisson involved in any argument or confrontation at the bar. He said that he did not know the woman who was with Mr. Tisson.
, a member of the , has been killed by a gunshot wound to the head in New York. Tisson was in New York participating in the Digicel Caribbean Cup tournament.

Several members of the team were at Tropiks Bar and Grill in  celebrating an earlier victory over Saint Kitts and Nevis. At 4.30am, Tisson entered a parked car outside of Tropiks. While seated in the rear of the car, Tisson was shot in the head. Three women were in the car at the time of the shooting, with one requiring medical attention for a shoulder wound.

According to teammate , Tisson left the bar at 3:30 A.M. () with an unknown woman.  Tisson's brother remained with his teammates and only found out about the shooting afterwards by phone.  Emmanuel also stated that no one witnessed Tission involved an argument with anyone. A police official said that there are no known suspects. Police are waiting for video evidence.

Tisson had scored in the Saint Kitts and Nevis game. St. Lucia advanced to the finals with their win over Saint Kitts and Nevis to face Jamaica. The team stated they will still play in the final on Sunday "despite the loss of a friend, a teammate and one of their most powerful players".

In St. Lucia, Tisson is survivied by his three year-old daughter.