"An individual who believed to be breaking into the apartment of an estranged acquaintance inadvertently broke into the wrong apartment," Joshua Pool, a manager at the Camden Belmont located northeast of downtown Dallas wrote in an email obtained by USA TODAY Sports on Saturday.
The basketball player was not immediately killed, was wounded in the stomach and tried to escape. As police arrived at the scene, the officers found him near the house. The man was transported to a local hospital and later died from injuries and loss of blood.
The police are investigating the incident as murder.
The New Orleans Pelicans also confirmed the reports on Dejean-Jones` death on Twitter.
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