Original title: The former Tongxi foreign aid was shot and the club mourned the 15,375 people who died in gun violence in the United States this year
Xinhua News Agency, Nanjing, May 11 (Reporter Wang Hengzhi) Adrian Payne, an American basketball player who briefly played for the Nanjing Tongxi team, was shot and died in the United States on the 9th. The Nanjing Tongxi Basketball Club issued a condolence on the 10th: ” Thank you for being here, Adrian Payne. All the way! RIP.”
The 31-year-old Payne was the No. 15 pick in the 2014 NBA draft. He played for the Atlanta Hawks, the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Orlando Magic successively. He was waived by the Magic in January 2018. Payne, who could not stand in the American Basketball Association, joined Nanjing Tongxi in July 2018, but he only played 8 times for Tongxi, averaging 28 minutes, scoring 16.9 points and 8.6 rebounds. In November, he was defeated by Isaiah Austin. replace.
Knowing that Payne was shot and passed away, Tongxi Club posted a message of condolences on Weibo, and former Tongxi player Merdan also wrote: “There is still a video of my lover taking me training with him on the phone. My lover has to I cried after knowing it! It’s so uncomfortable!!!”
In recent years, shootings have occurred frequently in the United States. The proliferation of guns and gun violence have become chronic diseases in American society. Last November, the American track and field world champion Emmett King was also killed in a shooting. Statistics from the US “Gun Violence Archives” website show that as of May 10, local time, 15,375 people have died from gun violence in the United States this year, including 571 teenagers and children aged 17 and under. A study by researchers at the University of Michigan in the New England Journal of Medicine also showed that gun-related injuries will become the leading cause of death for people aged 1 to 19 in the United States in 2020. (Finish)Return to Sohu, see more
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