Cops: NBA Player Killed While Breaking Into Apartment

newser ^ | 05/28/2016

[BenLurkin]

Police responded to a shooting at an apartment around 3:20 am and found Bryce Dejean-Jones of the New Orleans Pelicans wounded with a gunshot. He died at the hospital. The resident of the apartment tells police he was sleeping when someone kicked down his front door then his bedroom door. He says he fired his gun once. According to the New York Daily News, it appears Dejean-Jones thought he was breaking into an acquaintance's apartment but got the wrong one.

[Secret Agent Man]

If it was your friends place why would you have to break into it. Why would they not let you in?

And of course this is the biggest fake excuse people use all the damn time.

[Secret Agent Man]

Acquaitences are not even in the friends category.

So they are probably stretching the truth here. Trying to cover his ass.

[Ultima]

This is stupidity on multiple levels.

[trisham]

It’s possible. I’m guessing that an autopsy will be performed.

[ken in texas]

IQ = ????

Not stated, but I'll speculate it was on the lower end of the scale.

[ken in texas]

He kicked open the front door to visit his child?

Yep... though most people I know would have at least waited until sunrise. ;-)

[GreenHornet]

it looks like the acquaintance is an estranged girlfriend that was the mother of his child, and he wanted to visit on the kid's first birthday.

So naturally, he kicked open the apartment door at 3:20 AM.

[trisham]

No kidding. :)

[ilgipper]

Teachable moment. Don’t break into other peoples apartments

Noooo. Clearly the teachable moment is that guns are bad and people are racist.

[GOYAKLA]

Less than his points per game average!
A point or two above Hussein Obama’s!

[BlueStateRightist]

3:20 AM. Intoxicated...or something. All apartments look the same.

[VerySadAmerican]

Don’t bring the wrong apartment number to a gun fight.

[Chode]

pretty much

[BenLurkin]

just more urban garbage. Los Angeles area.

I beg your pardon, sir. I deeply resemble that remark!

[farming pharmer]

I wonder if he was under the influence of something.

I'm sure..

[TexasTransplant]

Idiot in the offending Apartment must have forgot to “Identify” with a sign.

[PLMerite]

“And of course this is the biggest fake excuse people use all the damn time.”

Yeah, the old “I thought it was the apartment of someone who wouldn’t mine me kicking the door in at 3AM,” excuse.

[PapaBear3625]

Acquaitences are not even in the friends category. So they are probably stretching the truth here. Trying to cover his ass.

Anti-gunners make much about how many shooting deaths are between "acquaintances". An acquaintances is anybody who is not a stranger. If Jamal recognizes Shlameal as a member of a rival gang, and kills him, then that counts as an acquaintance killing. If two robbers get into a shootout over how to divide the loot, and one dies, then that was an acquaintance killing.

[PAR35]

Dejean-Jones thought he was breaking into an acquaintance's apartment but got the wrong one.

I'm sure he won't make that mistake again.

[PAR35]

Someone kicks in your front door and your bedroom door at 3 am in Texas, you can shoot them. The Dallas DA might be crazy (she was back in the mental hospital at last report), but she isn’t stupid.