In some incredibly tragic news to add to the usually upbeat basketball news posts, the Associated Press has reported that former UNLV star and current NBA player Bryce Dejean-Jones was shot to death in an apartment in Dallas, Texas on Saturday. The New Orleans Pelicans guard was just 23 years old.
According to his agent Scott Nichols, Dejean-Jones in Dallas to visit his girlfriend and to celebrate his daughter's first birthday. After returning home on Saturday, Dejean-Jones went out for a walk, while his girlfriend went up to her fourth floor apartment. When Dejean-Jones arrived back at the apartment complex some time later, he approached the door of a unit on the third floor and began to knock on the door, unaware that he was at the wrong location.