Giants draft pick Corey Ballentine and his college roommate were asked if they had pot by strangers outside a party, and moments after the two men said no, they were shot, the slain victim’s father said Monday.
Ballentine, a 23-year-old grid star at Washburn University in Topeka, Kan., was wounded, and best pal and teammate Dwane Simmons, also 23, was killed at the off-campus weekend bash.
“[The] Washburn women’s soccer team was having a party,” Simmons’ dad, Navarro, told local KSHB-TV. “It was in walking distance” to the two young men’s home.
“They walked over, you know, had a good time.