Pelicans guard Bryce Dejean-Jones dies after gunshot wound

[jpak]

Source: ESPN

New Orleans Pelicans guard Bryce Dejean-Jones was fatally shot after breaking down the door to a Dallas apartment, authorities said Saturday.

"It is with deep sadness that the Pelicans organization acknowledges the sudden passing of Bryce Dejean-Jones," the Pelicans said in a statement. "We are devastated at the loss of this young man's life who had such a promising future ahead of him. Our thoughts and prayers are with Bryce's family during this difficult time."

According to Dallas police, officers responded to a call about a shooting at an apartment at about 3:20 a.m. Saturday morning. The resident of the apartment said an individual had kicked open his front door and entered his apartment. The resident, who had been asleep, retrieved a handgun and called out to the individual, but did not receive an answer. The individual kicked the bedroom door and the resident fired his gun at the individual, who left the apartment and collapsed in the breezeway. The individual was transported to the hospital, where he died.

Dallas police told ESPN it does not appear that DeJean-Jones and the resident of the apartment knew each other previously.

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[underpants]

1. Not that uncommon in terms of his journey to the NBA

More than one college
10 day contracts
Role player

Interesting to find out why he was kicking into two doors of someone he didn't know. Could be police smoke screen as they track down leads and connections.

[left-of-center2012]

2. From another link ...

"The player's agent, Scott Nichols, said Dejean-Jones was in Dallas to visit his girlfriend for his daughter's first birthday.

This was the first time Dejean-Jones visited her new apartment, Nichols said.
Later that night Dejean-Jones came back to the apartment complex but went to the wrong unit on the third floor,
just below his girlfriend's fourth-floor apartment, Nichols said."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/28/us/nba-player-fatally-shot/index.html
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He comes back late and goes to the wrong apartment.
He kicked open a stranger's apartment door, and then kicks open the stranger's bedroom door?

I wonder what he might have done to his girlfriend had it been her apartment?

[underpants]

3. At 3 am

Just saying

[left-of-center2012]

4. Guessing the bars close at 2 A.M. n/t

[christx30]

5. I'd be interested to know if there were

drugs in his system. He doesn't notice he's on the wrong floor. She doesn't answer the door (because she's a floor above), so he kicks it down, then kicks down the bedroom door, before the terrified resident shoots him. I don't know anyone that wouldn't be terrified if a NFL sized guy kicks our bedroom door down.

[left-of-center2012]

6. "a NFL sized guy"

True.
Or a basketball player, as was this guy, at 6' 5" and 203 pounds.

[christx30]

7. Not much difference.

Either way, self defense was the right call.

[yardwork]

8. A window into domestic violence.

If he hadn't gone to the wrong apartment, he probably would have beaten, raped, and possibly killed the woman. There would be no headlines.

[SCantiGOP]

9. Actually, no

Assault, rape and murder by a professional athlete normally gets a lot of headlines.

[yardwork]

10. A lot of it goes unreported.

[SCantiGOP]

11. True that