I’m glad I don’t believe in omens or portents. There is nothing good about this.

A former University of Pittsburgh football player has been charged with killing a teenager outside a gas station, authorities said.

Steven J. Walker, 19, of Canton, is charged with shooting Michael Cheek, 17, to death on Friday night. A warrant charging Walker with murder was issued Saturday, according to court documents.

Walker had not been arrested Sunday, authorities said. Municipal Judge John A. Poulos set Walker’s bond at $2 million.

Lt. James Cole said Walker and Cheek started arguing inside the station, and a witness said Cheek was trying to get to his car when he was shot. He was unconscious when taken to a hospital and died shortly afterward, authorities said.

Walker was dismissed from the Pittsburgh football program in early December 2004 and has not been a student at the school since then, Panthers spokesman E.J. Borghetti said Sunday. Borghetti would not say why Walker was dismissed from the program.

Before he was dismissed, Walker, a defensive back, was on the team for just over four months and did not play in any games, Borghetti said.

Walker started at quarterback for three seasons at Buchtel High School in Akron.

You hate to be cynical and wondering how it hurts Pitt when a life has been taken.

Still, when the headline screams that it was a Pitt player — Ex-player or not — the thoughts have to turn to it. It doesn’t matter if he was with the team for only one season, never played and most of us have never even heard of him (let alone realized he had been kicked off the team and left school).

I mean when the bright side is: at least he wasn’t associated with Pitt currently, things aren’t good. I’m sure there will be more later.