Bryce Dejean-Jones, a guard with the NBA’s New Orleans Pelicans, was shot and killed early this morning. He was 23.
According to a police report obtained by the
Dallas Morning News, Dejean-Jones was shot after breaking into an apartment. He died later at the hospital.
Per the Dallas newspaper, Dejean-Jones allegedly “kicked open the front door” to a city apartment at 3:20 a.m., startling the man inside. Police say the man grabbed his handgun and “called out,” but got no answer. That’s when Dejean-Jones kicked his bedroom door, and the man fired.
Dejean-Jones ran out of the apartment and “collapsed in the breezeway,” the cops purportedly stated in the report.
Dejean-Jones had joined the New Orleans squad as a free agent in 2015. He signed a three-year contract with the Pelicans in February after previous consecutive 10-day contracts. The guard started 11 of 14 games before undergoing surgery for a broken right wrist and missing the rest of the season. Dejean-Jones averaged 5.6 points, 3.4 rebounds and 1.1 assists in 19.9 minutes over his run.
Before his unlikely pro career, the undrafted DeJean-Jones attended the University of Southern California and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas before transferring to Iowa State.
