MOBILE, ALA. — A former Kansas high school student-athlete was shot and killed by an Alabama police officer following a Monday traffic stop.

Michael Moore, 19, who attended Shawnee Mission Northwest High School in Johnson County, was pulled over for driving a car reported as stolen and was asked to step out of the vehicle, according to Mobile police chief James Barber, who made statements about the killing to Alabama news organizations on Tuesday.

While interacting with the police officer, Barber said, the former Cougar football and basketball player reached for a gun in his waistband, which prompted the officer — whose named has not been released — to shoot Moore four times.

The officer who shot Moore was not wearing a body camera, and there was no dashboard footage of the shooting, Barber said, noting the FBI and other agencies are still looking into the details of the shooting. The officer has been placed on paid administrative leave.

Although Moore moved to Alabama after his sophomore year, many of his friends from Shawnee Mission Northwest remained close to him. Joel Droge, a 2015 SM Northwest alumnus, played football with Moore and built a friendship with him on and off the field.

Droge moved to Shawnee in sixth grade, and Moore was one of the first friends he made.

“There was a little cul-de-sac down the street from my house that we used to walk down to and play basketball at,” Droge said.

What was even more perplexing to Droge was that Moore wasn’t even supposed to be in Mobile on Monday night. Moore had planned to make a visit to the Kansas City area to hang out with Droge and other childhood friends, Droge said.

“There is a group of us that talk in like a group chat or whatever, and he told us that he was coming up here on June 12. He was supposed to be here this week, and we had already planned out the whole week and everything,” Droge said. “Then I get on Twitter and I see ‘RIP,’ and I was like, ‘What happened?’ It was just crazy.”

The loss was also felt by some of Moore’s former basketball teammates. Northwest alumnus Kendall Spencer took to Twitter to share his feelings about Moore.

“‘RIP my dude Michael Moore,'” Spencer tweeted. “Never thought I’d say that … one of my best friends and I’ve known him since we was 12.”

Two passengers were in the Lexus that was driven by Moore, but they were not arrested. Barber said the two passengers told police they saw Moore tuck a semi-automatic, .40-caliber firearm into his pants prior to stepping out of the vehicle.

When Moore reached for the weapon after the officer told him not to, the teenager was shot three times. Moore then tried to access his gun again before the fourth bullet took his life, Barber said.

“At that point the driver does go down and then attempts a second time to gain access to the weapon, at which (point) a fourth shot was fired,” Barber said.

Barber later added: “What officers are actually trained to do is when confronted with deadly force, use deadly force to the extent necessary to stop the threat, and so that could be one shot or four.”

Of the several people who arrived at the scene following the death of Moore, who is African American, many came to protest the life of another black teenager being taken by law enforcement.

“We can’t keep quiet about it. We can’t sit down,” Lanerica Heningberg told Mobile’s FOX10 News. “We can’t say, ‘Oh justice will be done.’ We can say justice will never be served. More people have been shot. So in order to end it now we have to gather ourselves together and be as one.”