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]]>The innocent Bronx basketball phenom gunned down Sunday night used his dying breaths to ask a friend to “call my mom,” one of his teammates told The Post Monday.
Brandon Hendricks, 17, was at a birthday party in Morris Heights with friends when shots rang out, pal Hammad Singleton said as he described his friend’s final moments.
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“In the blink of an eye, me and my friends are running away,” Singleton, 18, said. “I turn around and he told me, ‘I got hit,’ and I just seen it.”
“I grabbed him and said we can’t stop right here because there’s more shots going off,” he said. “He stopped at the steps and we sat him down. He started wobbling. So, I sat him down. My friends took off his shirt and I’m holding that for him. I’m talking to him: ‘You’re good bro, you’re good?’ He’s like, ‘Yeah, I’m okay, I’m okay.’”
“He’s trying to smile. He’s trying to talk to me: ‘I’m good, I’m good,’” recalled Singleton, who goes by the nickname Bam. “He said, ‘Yo, Bam, I love you. Call my mom.’”
“He just closed his eyes,” Singleton said. “He didn’t say anything else after that. That was it.”
Hendricks, who graduated from James Monroe High School last week, was shot once in the neck around 11:50 p.m. Sunday at Davidson Avenue and 176th Street in the Bronx. He was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Monroe assistant coach Chris Salgado told The Post Hendricks initially was planning to attend prep school, but he had decided on going to junior college at West Hills College in California.
A full qualifier, he was only planning to spend one year there. He played for Monroe for three years after attending Fordham Prep as a freshman.
This past season, he averaged 12 points, six assists and two steals per game as the Eagles’ point guard.
There was a candle-lighting vigil near his home in The Bronx on Monday that drew over 200 people and a similar remembrance is planned for Tuesday at Monroe, Salgado said.
Witnesses told police that Hendricks “had been engaged in a verbal dispute” before the shooting, sources said.
But Singleton said he was just a bystander.
“It really wasn’t meant for him,” he said. “Wrong place, wrong time. The people who were with me are all basketball players. Nothing to do with the streets.”
A standout student-athlete at the school, Hendricks was captain of the basketball team over the past two years, was weighing college options, his family said.
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“He was a fierce competitor but also a very supportive guy,” James Monroe basketball coach Nigel Thompson said. “That is why you see all this outpouring of love and support.”
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]]>Hall of Fame basketball player and Georgetown University coach Patrick Ewing announced Friday night that he was hospitalized after testing positive for coronavirus.
“I have tested positive for COVID-19,” Ewing said in a statement. “This virus is serious and should not be taken lightly. I want to encourage everyone to stay safe and take care of yourselves and your loved ones.”
Ewing, 57, just completed his third season as head basketball coach at his alma mater. No other members of that team or staff have tested positive, Georgetown said.
The coach has been isolated at a local hospital, according to the school.
The 7-foot center played 17 seasons in the NBA, 15 for the New York Knicks. He was an 11-time NBA All-Star.
Ewing was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008.
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]]>Tulane men’s basketball star Teshaun Hightower was arrested on a murder charge and other counts in Georgia on Saturday.
Hightower, the Green Wave’s leading scorer during the 2019-20 season, was jailed on multiple charges, including murder and aggravated assault, according to Henry County Jail records.
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Hightower, 22, was arrested as one of the six people wanted in connection to an April 8 murder in Stockbridge, police said in a Facebook post on Friday. Devante Anthony Long, the victim, died from gunshot wounds, police spokesman Capt. Randy Lee told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Five of six men have been arrested in connection to the murder, including Hightower’s brother Jeffrey.
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Averick Walker, Hightower’s attorney, said his client’s brother was using self-defense.
“He’s innocent. He didn’t shoot anybody,” Walker said of Teshaun Hightower, according to ESPN. “It’s sad that this detective sought to make him out to be a monster and he’s not. When it’s all said and done, it will come out in the wash that the person who did fire the gun shot the gun to protect Teshaun.
“Teshaun’s brother actually fired the weapon and fired in self-defense. The victim came out of the house with a gun in his hand and turned his weapon toward Teshaun to shoot him. That’s why the victim was shot himself.”
Tulane Athletic Director Troy Dannen said in a statement the school “immediately dismissed” Hightower from the team after learning of his arrest.
Hightower had NBA prospects and had announced on April 18 he was entering the NBA Draft pool while maintaining the option of returning to school with one year of eligibility left on his docket.
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He was averaging 15.9 points, 4.6 rebounds and 2.4 assists during the 2019-20 season before the coronavirus pandemic shut down sports programs. He had transferred to Tulane from Georgia after playing two seasons with the Bulldogs.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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