In early August 2018, Wake Forest assistant basketball coach Jamill Jones was sitting in his car in Queens when a 35-year-old man, Sandor Szabo, banged on his window looking for his Uber ride after a wedding. Jones got out of his car, followed Szabo to the sidewalk, punched him, and fled the scene. Szabo fell to the pavement, hit his head and lost consciousness. He died three days later.
Two days after Szabo died, Jones, a former VCU and FGCU assistant who was entering his second season on Danny Manning’s Wake Forest staff, surrendered but pleaded not guilty.