Posted on 07/11/2026 11:55:51 AM PDT by Libloather
A European professional basketball player was fatally shot and two people wounded when gunfire erupted Friday night at a packed Harlem basketball tournament, cops and witnesses said.
Kinu Rochford, a standout at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey, was struck twice in the head at around 10:30 p.m. at the Kingdome Basketball Tournament in the Martin Luther King Jr. Towers on Lenox Avenue, police said.
Rochford, 35, who was playing in the tournament, was shot while watching between games, according to cops.
Witnesses said Rochford was struck the second time when he was already on the ground bleeding. Cops have not confirmed that.
Emergency responders gave CPR to Rochford, who lived in Crown Heights, and rushed him to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, but he couldn’t be saved, cops said.
The two injured — a 28-year-old man was shot in the shin and a 22-year-old woman was shot in the right forearm — were among the estimated 500 in the crowd watching the tournament between West 112th Street and West 115th Street.
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Malcolm X Daycare Center, lol?
Sort of like people in LA signalling a lane change by firing a couple of rounds across your hood.
Yeah there’s another one LOL..here in LA we used to have Rodeo Road(Its where Target is now, La Cienaga Blvd/Rodeo Road) back in the day its where Pic N Save used to be) now its Obama Blvd instead of Rodeo Road, whenever I pass by it I give it the finger LOL
If he was shot twice, there is a motive.
“Martin Luther King Jr. Towers” ... i think i see the problem ...
There’s never a social worker around when you need one.
This killing is news? Just another black on black murder that happens every single day in this country. No screaming from Al Sharpton or the rest of the race hustlers, no rush of media to the site, no demands for statues to come down, nothing. Why? There is no money or power to be gained when blacks kill anyone so there is only dead silence.
Bassetball jones!............
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