Pelicans’ Dejean-Jones dies from gunshot wound

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New Orleans Pelicans guard Bryce Dejean-Jones was fatally shot after breaking down the door to a Dallas apartment early Saturday, authorities said.

Dejean-Jones’ agent, Scott Nichols, said his client died after a gunshot wound to the abdomen.

According to Dallas police, officers responded to a call about a shooting at an apartment around 3:20 a.m. Saturday morning. The resident of the apartment said an individual had kicked open his front door and entered.

Camden Belmont Apartments sent an email to residents Saturday saying an individual was “believed to be breaking into the apartment of an estranged acquaintance inadvertently; broke into the wrong apartment.” The individual was later ID’d as Dejean-Jones. Andy Jacobsohn/The Dallas Morning News/AP

The resident, who had been asleep, retrieved a handgun and called out to the individual, but did not receive an answer. The individual kicked the bedroom door and the resident fired his gun at the individual, who left the apartment and collapsed in the breezeway. The individual was transported to the hospital, where he died. Police at that point identified him as Dejean-Jones.

According to an email that Camden Belmont Apartments sent to its residents Saturday morning, the individual later identified as Dejean-Jones was “believed to be breaking into the apartment of an estranged acquaintance (but) inadvertently broke into the wrong apartment.”

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.

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