NBA player shot dead. Entered wrong apartment during visit

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/28/us/nba-player-fatally-shot/index.html

A Dallas resident told police he heard someone enter his apartment by kicking open the front door, police spokesman DeMarquis Black said in a statement. The resident said "he called out to the individual, but was not answered," and when the resident's bedroom door was kicked open, the resident fired his gun, police said

Dejean-Jones collapsed in the breezeway, police said. He was transported to a local hospital, where he died from his injuries, Black said.
The basketball player's agent, Scott Nichols, said Dejean-Jones was in Dallas to visit his girlfriend for his daughter's first birthday.
This was the first time Dejean-Jones visited her new apartment, Nichols said. Later that night Dejean-Jones came back to the apartment complex but went to the wrong unit on the third floor, just below his girlfriend's fourth-floor apartment, Nichols said.
Police had no immediate response to Nichols' comments.
"There is no information that suggests the deceased Bryce Dejean-Jones knew the apartment resident, or was armed as he entered the apartment," Black said.

[immoderate]

1. Kick down enough doors ...

And you wear out your welcome.

--imm

[Kang Colby]

2. Why did he kick open the front door? n/t

[Jesus Malverde]

5. the person who had been shot had been trying to break into "the apartment of an estranged acquaintan

Julie Keel, a spokeswoman for Camden Property Trust, the real estate company that owns the apartment complex in Dallas, confirmed that the complex's apartment manager had sent out an email to residents saying that the person who had been shot had been trying to break into "the apartment of an estranged acquaintance" and that this person had "inadvertently" broken into the wrong apartment.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article80568142.html#storylink=cpy

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

7. "inadvertently"

As opposed to just illegally?

Good lord. What a waste.

[TeamPooka]

24. So he was kicking down the door of an estranged girlfriend late on a Friday night. That was an

unfortunate choice, as was the wrong door he kicked down.

[Bucky]

35. Not a great way to celebrate a birthday

The headline is a bit misleading.

[TeamPooka]

39. It hides the karma payback that's for sure.

[bravenak]

3. So just kick the door in? Why not knock? I'd be scared shitless if somebody kicked in my door.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

6. Sadly, some men think that's a completely appropriate way to announce they are home n/m

[bravenak]

9. Well damn! Very unfortunate.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

28. Damn, you made it over 100 posts?

Slipping around here.....

[Cal Carpenter]

40. Still active, too

This one needs a close look by admin, afaic.

Nasty shit.

[LisaL]

11. Apparently he had an argument with his girlfriend earlier in a day.

So I am going to guess he didn't expect her to just open the door.

"Sources told ESPN that Dejean-Jones was in town to celebrate his daughter's birthday and was involved in an argument with the child's mother prior to the shooting."

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/15792680/new-orleans-pelicans-guard-bryce-dejean-jones-dies-gunshot-wound-abdomen

[bravenak]

13. Ok. That was a bad move.

Most people wait until they get let in, if they are not getting let in. I would not have let him in either, I think, if that how he was as a person.

[dilby]

22. If you are going to kick down a woman's door I don't think

He was going to give her hugs and kisses, her life may have been saved.

[tblue37]

27. And after having argued with her earlier, according to someone quoted in the article,

"He went to the wrong apartment unfortunately and I think he thought his girlfriend locked him out, so he was knocking on the door, banging on the door, it's locked,'' Nichols told the Associated Press. "So one thing led to another.''

[Egnever]

43. One thing led to another...

What a bunch of horse dookey that is.

Violent guy gets violent at wrong house and gets shot.

The one thing to another line seems to be trying to justify him kicking down a door as if it would have been OK if he had just kicked in the right door.

[Mohammed_Lee]

4. Where is it normal to kick down a door

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[Vincardog]

10. door was kicked open

[1939]

32. I have a friend

that ran a discount building supply store. He said much of his business was in exterior doors as landlords of inexpensive apartments were always having to replace a tenant's door that had been kicked in by a boyfriend/male acquaintance.

I always joked that he should call his business "Slumlord Supply". He sold his business and retired and is now touring the US in a motor home.

[dembotoz]

8. wonder if there is some exaggeration going on as to kicking in the door

[Nye Bevan]

16. Like maybe the real story is that he tapped timidly on the door,

and called "Hey honey! It's me"?

[yardwork]

18. Typical domestic violence.

[Duckhunter935]

12. Not just entered, kicked down two doors

And refused to answer when challenged

[Nye Bevan]

14. He kicked open the front door, then kicked open the bedroom door?

"Entered the wrong apartment during visit" doesn't seem to be quite the whole story.

[yardwork]

19. Sounds like he was going to beat up his former girlfriend.

[tammywammy]

21. That's what it sounds like to me.

He was going to kick in the doors to reach his ex-girlfriend. Nothing good comes from that.

[NutmegYankee]

38. That's exactly how it sounded to me.

The fact that he probably heard a man yelling out from the bedroom probably enraged him even more.

[Socal31]

15. Someone kicked in my door not too long ago.

Can't go into detail, but my response was similar.

No sympathy from me unfortunately.

[Yo_Mama]

17. I'm suspecting alcohol/drugs was involved, and what would have happened if he had the right apt?

That sounds like it would have been a scary/dangerous situation for the girlfriend and the baby.

This just sucks in every way, but you cannot break into homes violently without instilling terror.

I presume that if the dead guy heard a man's voice calling from inside what he thought was his girlfriend's apartment it made him even madder.

[yardwork]

20. Sounds like typical domestic violence to me. No drugs or alcohol required.

[Bucky]

36. Not required, but they sure do help

From having worked at a women's shelter, I can tell you the preponderance of domestic physical abuse is fueled by substance abuse

[hunter]

23. Well, good thing it wasn't a cop kicking down doors...

What the fuck is wrong with people?

[Rex]

25. I am very sorry he died so young, however it sounds very bad for him and his situation.

Sounds like he was about to commit domestic violence.

[sarisataka]

29. Kicking in doors

at 3am is now entering the wrong apartment during a visit?

I suppose home invasion will now be called 'dropping in unannounced'

[Fumesucker]

31. I chose to take it as very dry sarcasm

[Iggo]

30. "Visit."

Yeah, I guess that's one way of putting it.

[ileus]

33. Did Katie Couric edit this thread?

[obamanut2012]

34. Someone wanted to put the beatdown on his girlfriend

Instant karma for this abuser.

[NutmegYankee]

37. I can't blame the resident. He retreated to the bedroom and the NBA player kicked that door open too

Any rational person would be in complete fear at that point.

[n2doc]

41. "Honey, I'm Home"

[Mendocino]

42. Entered wrong apartment during visit!!?

and the shark in Jaws was "a large predator that supposedly injured some bathers".