A University of Central Florida basketball player honored his cousin who died in a jet ski accident last week, writing in an Instagram post that “a piece of me went with you that day.”
Sophomore C.J. Walker, who plays forward for the UCF Knights, posted a photo to Instagram Sunday of himself and his cousin Jeffery Barksdale, who drowned last week while jet skiing on Lake Down in Windermere.
“For those who don’t know me and my cousin was in a jet ski accident,” he wrote. “God knows I did everything I can to keep you alive bro!