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		</div><h3><span style="color:#2b0404;"><strong>Pelicans guard Bryce Dejean-Jones dies at age 23</strong></span></h3>
<h3><span style="color:#2b0404;"><strong>Undrafted rookie out of Iowa State just signed multi-year deal with the Pelicans in January, 2016</strong></span></h3>
<h3><span style="color:#2b0404;"><strong>Shot in the abdomen Friday night and bled to death </strong></span></h3>
<h3><span style="color:#2b0404;"><strong>He was visiting his </strong>“estranged girlfriend&#8221; for his daughter&#8217;s<strong> first birthday</strong></span></h3>
<h3><span style="color:#2b0404;">He broke into a Dallas apartment he believed was his girlfriend’s and instead startled a man who presumably shot in self defence </span></h3>
<h3><span style="color:#2b0404;">Scott Nichols, his agent &#8211; Bryce<span style="color:#2b0404;"><strong> </strong>was<strong> “in the wrong place at the wrong time.”</strong></span><br />
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<p>New Orleans Pelicans guard 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.<br />
The 23-year-old NBA 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. According to the police reports, the man who lived there woke up, grabbed his handgun and “called out” to the intruder. But he got no answer.<br />
When Dejean-Jones kicked the door to the bedroom, police said, the man fired, apparently in self-defense. Dejean-Jones ran out of the apartment and “collapsed in the breezeway,” police said. He was taken to a local hospital, where he died. The Dallas County medical examiner’s office confirmed his death Saturday, saying an autopsy had not yet been performed. His agent, Scott Nichols said Dejean-Jones died from a gunshot wound to his abdomen.</p>
<h6><img class=" wp-image-27123 aligncenter" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/bryce2.png" alt="bryce2.png" width="854" height="844" /><strong>Apartment complex believe Dejean-Jones had been trying to get into the apartment of an “estranged acquaintance” and “inadvertently broke into the wrong apartment.”</strong></h6>
<p>ESPN reported that the acquaintance was the mother of Dejean-Jones’ child.<br />
Nichols told CNN in a statement that the NBA player was in Dallas to visit his girlfriend for his daughter’s first birthday. He said Dejean-Jones was visiting her new apartment for the first time and, when he came back to the apartment later that night, he went to the unit directly below hers.Dejean-Jones, his agent said, was “in the wrong place at the wrong time.”<br />
It’s unclear whether the unidentified man who shot Dejean-Jones will face charges.<br />
Under Texas law, a person is allowed to use deadly force to defend himself in his home. It also says a person using force cannot provoke the attacker or be involved in criminal activity at the time.<br />
Police are investigating. They do not believe that Dejean-Jones was armed.<br />
The New Orleans Pelicans released a statement Saturday acknowledging Dejean-Jones’ “sudden passing” with “deep sadness.”<br />
“We are devastated at the loss of this young man’s life who had such a promising future ahead of him,” it said. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Bryce’s family during this difficult time.”<br />
While in a statement the NBA mourned the “tragic loss.” “Bryce inspired countless people with his hard work and perseverance on his journey to the NBA, and he had a bright future in our league,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in the statement.</p>
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<strong>Dejan-Jones: College standout at Iowa</strong></h6>
<p>Th Los Angeles native attended the University of Southern California and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, before transferring to Iowa State.<br />
according to ESPN. He joined the Pelicans as a free-agent rookie last year.<br />
6-foot-6 guard, Dejean-Jones signed who recently signed a three-year, $2 million deal with the Pelicans as an undrafted free agent out of Iowa State. The Los Angeles-area native spent time at three colleges — USC, UNLV, and ultimately Iowa State — averaging 10.8 points per game over four seasons.<br />
Dejean-Jones was waived by the Pelicans in October but was re-signed to back-to-back 10-day contracts two months later. He signed a two-year deal with the Pelicans in February and finished his rookie season having averaged 5.6 points and 3.4 rebounds in 14 games.</p>
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Tragedy! Bryce Dejean-Jones, Pelicans guard, 23 dies after being shot in the stomach ‘breaking into stranger’s apartment’
