Bryce Dejean-Jones learned a hard lesson when he went to see the mother of his one-year-old daughter in Dallas.
Dejean-Jones was estranged from his girlfriend / mother of his child, and showed up at what he thought was her apartment at 3:30am.
Not getting any answer when he knocked, he began banging on the door, becoming enraged that the ex-girlfriend didn’t answer.
“One thing led to another” as his agent was quoted as saying, and he kicked in the front door. The homeowner warned the intruder to leave from behind a locked bedroom door.
Dejean-Jones kicked in the bedroom door. The homeowner saw the 6′ 6″, 206-pound man in the doorway and shot the intruder.
The freshly perforated basketball star stumbled out of the apartment and bled out in the breezeway.
He might have been a good basketball player, but Bryce Dejean-Jones certainly wasn’t raised a decent human being.
The NBA commissioner called Dejean-Jones’ death a tragedy. The real tragedy might have been if he’d found the intended apartment.
But we probably wouldn’t have read about that in the national media.
Good riddance.
Good job Texas.
Texas wins again, as does Darwin!
gee, that’s a shame. It’s probably the gun’s fault, right Shannon Watts?
Life isn’t like it is in Hollywood or Hip Hop videos, is it Mr. Hyphenated Last Name Basketball Player?
Former player at the University I work at. He came to visit his one yo daughter for her birthday. He and Ex got mad at each other and he left apartment that he had only just been too once. When he came back after he cooled off, he went to wrong apartment and assumed the ex wouldn’t let him back in. Then he made some poor life choices and died. End of story.
That CNN article is disgusting. They go way out of their way to paint this thug who kicked in two locked doors as a good guy and then desperately attempt to paint the blameless home invasion victim as the bad guy. SHAME on CNN!
CNN can paint it in all the rose colors they want, but Joe and Jane Sixpack see it for what it is: a righteous defense of an innocent’s home.
I gotta say, if someone kicks in my door at any hour, deadly force is on the table. Kick in my bedroom door too? You’re gettin’ shot. And if you are 6’6″ like this rampaging hoodlum, I am gonna give you lots a ballistic lovin!
I no longer watch the NBA or the NFL, too much thug life portrayed by the players. For instance last year when the St’ Louis rams came out onto the field in the “hands up, don’t shoot” postures. I’m not going to lower myself and watch their crap.
I’ll watch felonball now and then, but not basketball or baseball.
Your disdain for human life, while compounded by your utter worship of cop.killers, is troubling.
This was a HUMAN BEING.
Okay, the homeowner was justified in the shoot, but a human still died.
Your utter adulation at the death of humans gives me substantial pause.
It should be RUED. It should be pondered. But revelling in it?
I remind you, you guys are SUPPOSED TO BE the good guys. Yes, you’re entitled to self-defense, but you can do so with regret.
A human being that chose to end his own life, albeit using someone else as a means to achieve that end.
After all, the people behind the doors he kicked in were human beings too.
A human being that chose to end his own life, albeit using someone else as a means to achieve that end.
After all, the people behind the doors he kicked in were human beings too.
We revel in the fact that the RIGHT human lost his life, as a direct result of his own choice, rather than the INNOCENT who was given no choice in the matter.
Good triumphed over evil. An innocent was protected from a violent predator. Yes, I’d say that’s cause for celebration.
Ken, I guess you don’t think of cops as humans, since you ALWAYS have a disdain for them.
We are to never be happy when garbage of the world is taken out? Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, OBL? You wouldn’t be joyful at the death of people like that? Not really a difference here. Garbage is garbage, no matter what degree.
This thug was a human only by the dictionary definition. He obviously never earned his human being credentials by way of the life he lived.
If it wasn’t for his ability to bounce a ball around and throw it through a hoop, he would likely be just another statistic on the streets of Chitcago or elsewhere. He probably lived longer than his lifestyle would have normally allowed.
I really don’t see the comments here as celebrating that he died, but rather that a potential victim is not dead instead.
We are STILL to pray for their souls.
Imagine being in Heaven and meeting Hitler who, as it developed, didn’t commit suicide but was, instead, on his knees praying for forgiveness (which shall be granted if you ask for it) and the woman shot him in the back of his head.
A very wise, devout man explained that to me, that even the most evil, vile of humans is capable of salvation.
The fact that you so-called “good men” don’t even CONSIDER this, gives me substantial pause.
I encourage you to pray for your OWN souls, as you are gleefully cheering the death and, perhaps, loss of this young man’s.
You may pray for their souls.
I’ll save my life’s energy and prayers for souls far more deserving.
I suspect most of our visitors, unless they are family or friends of this poorly raised “man”, will feel the same.
John
Who are you to judge, J.B.?
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, and all have been judged and found wanting.
You perfect, brah? Nah, I didn’t think so.
Why don’t you leave the praying to those for whom it MEANS something. I sense that you pray to the same entity O’Blowme does.
HE HAS A SOUL. IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT, JUST REMEMBER THAT YOU TOO WILL BE JUDGED ONE DAY FAR TOO SOON.
SHAME ON YOU ALL.
Sure, the most evil may be capable of salvation, but that is for God to decide, not me. I am to worry about my own. This guy, and the rest of the ghetto thugs, choose their path, so I am not going to be saddened when their lives end in the manner they were lived.
It’s kind of like a saying from our soldiers in the mideast, referring to the terrorists: Their wish is to meet their god. Our job is to arrange that meeting.
So… if God’s the one making the ultimate judgement, why are you shaming us and trying to appoint yourself score keeper?
Maybe because you don’t practice what you preach? Maybe because your reason for being here is ultimately to market your own perceived self-righteousness rather than actually DOING RIGHTEOUSNESS?
To be frank, your actions are no different than the social justice warriors that are so “Tolerant” that they become violently hateful of large groups of people.. you know, because tolerance.
You’re still devaluing other people in attempt to elevate yourself…
I celebrate the death of violent thugs and the increasingly safe society their demise brings with it. If relishing a safer society for your family is problematic for you ken, the why don’t you go commit some self fornication?
Ken, you ought to seek professional help for those demons.
No demons here, son. Just hopin’ and prayin’ for lost souls, like yours. Cheers!
Oh, and no cop/killers (yet) to report today!
Carry on, “good guys!”
Geez Ken-doll, you really don’t have a lot of good to say. It’s like you have diarrhea of the mouth/keyboard.
How would you like to wake up with that every morning?
Don’t ya know this {man} was a pillar of the community, just a humble guy doing his thing bringing unwed mothers children at no cost! not knowing his own dad, man decided that he should be known to his daughter and maybe might get lucky and maybe score because main squeeze dumped him! but having had a few of whatever; in his befuddlement getting angrier because he can’t find the place, he accidentally bumps into the door and it broke open, gee i wonder why an old wheeser would get a little antsy seeing a slobbering incoherent bum breaking in while yelling endearing invective’s, good job at least his daughter may get some money