Posted on 12/26/2014 6:34:25 AM PST by DeaconBenjamin
A former coach and family friend of the Howard Bison running back who was one of two suspects fatally shot during an attempted robbery in Texas says Terrence Neal Tusan was a "good kid" and student.
Tusan, 22, was killed on Sunday at a Denton, Texas, apartment complex. Denton police say five people were involved in some sort of altercation during the home-invasion robbery.
"He was a good kid," Clarence Nevels, a former coach and mentor to Tusan, told the Denton Record-Chronicle. "He had good grades and was just down at AT&T Stadium for Thanksgiving Day Madness Youth Football speaking to students about believing in themselves."
Tusan, who was at home on holiday break from the Washington D.C., school, was killed along with 18-year-old Jakobi Dmon Gipson.
Police say three men forced their way into an apartment and gunfire broke out, leaving two suspects dead and two residents wounded. The third suspect fled and reportedly remains at large.
Nevels, who knew Tusan for 15 years, told the Denton newspaper that Tusan didn't have a criminal history and wasn't known to be associated with drugs.
"You have to wonder, what would be the purpose to throw his life away?" Nevels said, according to the Record-Chronicle's report.
Tusan, a junior for Howard, had 331 rushing yards with two touchdowns this season as a backup running back, including a 70-yard TD in a 38-25 loss to Rutgers.
Police recovered two guns, one belonging to a victim and another belonging to a suspect. Police haven't specified who opened fire.
"Terrence was the only child [his mother, Donna Tusan] had left, and now he is gone, too," said Nevels, who the newspaper reported was speaking on behalf of the Tusan family. "We just want to ask anyone looking into this incident to investigate further."
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Why don community organizers throw away their lives? Because there’s nothing to live for.
God is dead in da hood.
What happened to the others? Death by misadventure?
I had the same question...
Except for the occasional home invasion..........
Its quite sad but Black America is busy aborting itself and no one seems to care.
Terrence Tusan is one of those aborted lives Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson won’t be losing sleep over.
I would never describe a thug with a gun breaking into another person's home to commit armed robbery as a "good kid". Any culture that doesn't see the contradiction is a failed culture.
Don’t tell me, let me guess: he was “turning his life around”, right?
Lots of “good kids” getting killed for nothing.
Like Jawad Jabbar killed over attempting to rob a shoe customer in Dayton OH, on Christmas Eve for his Nike Jordan sneakers.
It sounds familiar. Some people take a shortcut through life... with all too predictable fatal results.
Let me guess...he was a gentle giant who was turning his life around.
So, was he a resident or a perp?
It's just the slovenly way we have of expressing ourselves these days. What he meant was that the kid came across as good, and gave him no reason to think otherwise in his day-to-day dealings.
He's good'n dead now.
I guess they didn’t count on the homeowner being armed.
Oops!
It’s screamingly obvious that the killer was black, or the national media would be in an anti-second-amendment, anti-white-Hispanic-vigilante paroxysm of crocodile tears.
There's an insidious other drug that black youth is associated with, namely, rap/hip-hop "culture," and it's more pernicious than meth or crack or any other pharmaceutical substance. They are fascinated by it, and its glorification of crime and chaos. Even the good ones.
He was a good boy. Fine, good boys sometimes have another side. Just because you’re nice in front of certain people doesn’t mean you’re a good person, necessarily.
While I applaud the shoot and loot part - I don’t think alcohol consumption and guns is necessarily a good combination to promote.
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