Showing posts with label Nigerian basketball Chinedu Onyeuku shot dead. Show all posts
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Friday, 30 November 2012

Nigerian national basketball player shot dead after 'trying to rob a home in Texas



A former Nigerian national basketball player was shot dead in a botched burglary in Texas before Thanksgiving, it has been revealed. Chinedu Onyeuku, 29, was trying to break into a home in Plano on November 21 and was shot and killed by the home owner, police say.

Onyeuku had played for the Nigerian team that qualified for this summer’s Olympic Games in London.

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