THE popular, popular, popular Gunshots were heard from where elementary school students were warming up for a youth football game at a California high school.

Terrance Patrick was shot three times in a car parked outside St. John Bosco High School in Bellflower, Calif., where he had come to watch his 7-year-old son’s soccer game on Oct. 5, Lt. Hugo Reynaga of County Los Angeles. The Sheriff’s Department Homicide Bureau confirms to PEOPLE.

Officers who responded to the shooting at 8:20 a.m. Saturday found the windshield of Patrick’s car riddled with bullets.

Reynaga claims the shooter – who was not apprehended a month later – fired three shots, all of which hit Patrick. The 29-year-old father of two young children was rushed to hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A woman who was in the car with him was not injured.

In a interview with Fox11, Mike Brown who coaches the North Long beach Panthers 8-U team – made up of children 8 years or less – said he heard several gunshots while his players were warming up that morning.

“Pop, pop, pop,” Brown recalled. “At first we thought it was the balloons in the stands.”

Brown said Patrick’s son did not appear to be aware of what happened and was not removed from the game.

“The kid finished the football game and all that,” Brown said. “I guess the mother didn’t want to give him all that information.”

In a GoFundMe set up by the family to help cover funeral and burial costs, relative Brian Patrick recalled how their “beloved” Teddy – as the late Patrick called him – “loved his children and the joys of fatherhood more than anything. He was a man with a cheerful and kind spirit who will be deeply missed.

“It shook our family, leaving us with so much pain, grief, confusion and so many unanswered questions,” he said. “We have no idea what could have motivated someone to kill in cold blood.”

Calling the killing “senseless”, the relative added: “His death left a mother and father without their son, siblings without their brother and, most tragic of all, two young children without a loving father to raise them. »

Reynaga tells PEOPLE that no recorded or observed altercation precipitated the shooting and that authorities are “pursuing at least two suspects” in the case.

Although investigators have not revealed a motive in the case, the lieutenant says the car Patrick was in at the time of the shooting had been reported stolen.