Family members of a former University of Oklahoma football player are grieving after he was found murdered in an apartment in Downtown Dallas.
Police said 25-year-old Du'Vonta Lampkin was shot to death in an apartment on South Ervay Street Thursday night. He was found when friends went to check on him.Lampkin’s cousin said Du’Vonta wanted to follow in his footsteps in Dallas real estate following his time on a football field.
"I couldn’t stop crying the other day because I was thinking about was all the memories of him growing up," Du’Vonta’s cousin, Kerry Lampkin, said. From his first varsity game at Cypress Falls High School in Houston, to his last time on the field at the University of Oklahoma. His cousin received a text a few months ago that Du’Vonta wanted a mentor during his move to Dallas.
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