The Pitt men’s basketball program lost one of the players responsible for its rise to prominence under Paul Evans in the late 1980s, as Demetreus Gore reportedly died of a heart attack over the weekend.
Alby Oxenreiter of WPXI was the first member of the media to report the news of Gore's death. It was later confirmed by Charles Smith, Gore’s former teammate at Pitt.
“Today, I received a text that my college teammate Demetreus Gore died of a heart attack while working out in a gym,” Smith said. “I just spoke to him this past Thursday.