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NBA player Bryce Dejean-Jones was shot and killed early Saturday after he broke into a Dallas apartment he believed was his girlfriend’s and instead startled a man he didn’t know, according to police and his agent.
The 23-year-old New Orleans Pelicans guard “kicked open the front door” to a unit in the Camden Belmont Apartments, just east of Central Expressway and Fitzhugh Avenue, about 3:20 a.m., police said.
Police said the man who lived there woke up, grabbed his handgun and “called out” to the intruder. But he got no answer.
When Dejean-Jones kicked the door to the bedroom, police said, the man fired, apparently in self-defense.
As a victim of a home break-in & burglary (though I thankfully wasn't home at the time), I have 0 sympathy for people who break into homes - whether or not it was a mistaken entry or not.
In this case, the guy broke the door down - the fact that it was the wrong home is irrelevant.
The more that criminals & would-be criminals realize that home-owners have weapons & aren't afraid to use them if their homes are broken into, home invasions would probably happen less often.
Not only did he break down the door to the apartment, but after the homeowner called out from his bedroom and there was no reply he broke down the door to the bedroom. It was that point he was shot. Seems cut and dry justified from what I have read.
Why break into a home, even if he occupant is someone you know? Even if say you think someone is dead and you have not heard from them, call the police instead of breaking into the home. Breaking in even for "good" purpose is never right.
Apparently, breaking through doors is a more logical solution than calling his girlfriend on the phone to let him in. My sympathy is for the guy who had to shoot him and now live with the fact that he killed someone, not for Jones.
Apparently, breaking through doors is a more logical solution than calling his girlfriend on the phone to let him in. My sympathy is for the guy who had to shoot him and now live with the fact that he killed someone, not for Jones.
Allegedly, from what I saw on a ticker this morning, he and the babymamma were having arguments earlier in the day. I'm guessing the phone wasn't being answered on her end.
This is definitely a case of thinning the herd. I don't understand what Jones was thinking. He committed a crime by breaking into the apartment, and then I fully anticipate a domestic violence crime would have followed. But, due to brilliant thinking, he is dead for "breaking into the wrong house!" and now the baby mama that he was fighting with gets all his earnings. Talk about impulsive and not thinking things through. I pray the child has a good life and a good head on his or her shoulders and the baby mama uses the money for productive means.
And the person who shot him should not be charged.
Was attempting to kick down the door of estranged girlfriend at 3am. I'm sure he was drunk and didn't have good intentions. Estranged girlfriend probably would have been beaten or killed. This worked out for the best
I thought I saw somewhere that he was on the wrong floor
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