Posted on 12/28/2014 8:01:02 PM PST by grundle
Police believe that the 22-year-old running back was shot and killed while attempting to break into a Texas apartment.
A Howard University running back, who returned to his Texas home while on holiday break, was shot and killed along with an 18-year-old man after the two men and an accomplice reportedly attempted to rob an apartment.
According to the Denton Record-Chronicle, Howard running back Terrence Neal Tusan, 22; Jakobi Dmon Gipson, 18; and another man allegedly forced their way into a Denton, Texas, apartment Sunday. Although police did not say how the shooting began, it is believed that residents of the apartment opened fire on the young men, who were reportedly all wearing masks.
Gipson's body was found inside the apartment, according to the Denton Record-Chronicle, and Tusan's body was found outside near the apartment. A third suspect, who may have been injured in the shooting, remains at large.
Tusan's mother, Donna, told the newspaper that she and her son had watched the Dallas Cowboys beat the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday and that after the game, he left to be with friends.
"He was very happy with his grades," she told the Record-Chronicle. "We were going to do some more Christmas shopping."
Clarence Nevels, a former coach, family friend and mentor to the Howard Bison running back, told the Record-Chronicle that Tusan was a "good kid."
"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," Nevels said. He told the newspaper that the young man he had known for some 15 years didn't have a criminal history and wasn't associated with drugs.
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Will those last few yards going through the door count toward his rushing totals for the season?
“Somebody needs to teach them about believing in and fearing God.”
Somebody shudda taught him about fearing armed Texans.
Well, as fearsome as armed Texans are, even they can’t compare to to the terror of falling into the Hands of an Angry God.
“...2/3 ain’t bad.”
That’s what Meatloaf always taught me.
CC
I’m more than twice his age and when on my way home from anywhere never decided to commit a robbery. At a point in my life I was poor, dirt floor poor, but I didn’t steal. Must be something wrong with my upbringing.
Black culture has a totally opposite definition of what a “good kid” is.
Good kids don’t put on masks and attempt to rob someone’s apartment.
This is the country. WTH was he doing here and at that house? Very strange.
I'll post a link. Can't post the article as I only h ave an iPhone 3.
He could’ve been a good kid..right up to when he wasn’t.
I smell a protest a brewin’.
Race pimps Sharpton and Jackson insight violent protests in 3...2...1
Once you put on that Obama mask, you just unintentionally start stealing from people. It’s not really your fault. It’s George Bush’s fault!
Another thug going to school. When will the colleges start checking the backgrounds on these thugs?
That really is how the racist PC police think.
You're joking, right?
“When will the colleges start checking the backgrounds on these thugs?”
When colleges stop getting millions of dollars from their sports programs and stop being the minor leagues for pro sports.
Americans have to decide what the purpose of college is, education or a 4-year party with sports as the focus.
Everyone is allowed to be proud of their ethnic background except white people. Well, guess what? I am proud to be white. My wife chose me, at least initially, because I am white. If that makes me rayciss, so be it. F those MOFOs.
Good shooting.
That apartment and the things in it tempted him...It’s all the apartments fault.
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