*Texans wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins has vowed to donate his NFL playoff game check to the family of the 7-year-old girl who was killed over the weekend when a white male in a pickup truck pulled up alongside the vehicle she was a passenger in and opened fire.
“When I see Jazmine Barnes‘ face, I see my own daughter,” Hopkins, 26, tweeted Thursday. “On Saturday, I will be playing in your honor, Jazmine.”
Hopkins wants to help the family cover the funeral costs and to add to the reward being offered by authorities for information leading to an arrest of the gunman.
“It’s been a moving number, but it’s safe to say that the number is in the six figures,” Harris County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Jason Spencer told The Post.
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On Thursday afternoon, a sketch of a possible suspect was released… see below.
“Our investigators have been sifting through a consistent stream of tips coming in locally and nationally,” Spencer said. “And the ones that have the most specificity and the most promise are being prioritized. Obviously, no arrests have been made or arrest warrants issued, but we are getting promising leads that are being pursued.”
This is a composite sketch of the man that murdered #JazmineBarnes. Much of the information previously released was incorrect. He was described as having a very thin build, pale skin and blue eyes. Please help us find him! pic.twitter.com/jWjNILK1ak
— S. Lee Merritt, Esq. (@MeritLaw) January 3, 2019
As previously reported, Jasmine’s father is asking the public for help finding the shooter, who has been described as a white man in his 40’s.
“I just want anybody, whoever out there that knows anything about the murder of my daughter, to just please step up as if it was your own,” Jazmine’s father, Christopher Cevilla, said at a news conference Monday, according to People.
“Just put yourself in my shoes — in my family’s shoes,” he said.
Jazmine and her three siblings were with their mother, LaPorsha Washington, 30, at the time of the shooting. Two teens and a 6-year-old were also in the car. The teens were not seriously injured during the incident. Washington was shot in the arm while Jazmine’s 6-year-old sister was hurt by shattered glass after the gunman fired into the family’s car “totally unprovoked,” said Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.
“The family should be celebrating and spending time together anticipating the new year and instead they’re making plans to bury this innocent, precious child,” he told reporters Monday.
As reported by The New York Post, the community organized a rally in Jazmine’s honor scheduled for Saturday in the Walmart parking lot near where she was killed. A funeral and a ceremonial balloon release is set for Monday at Houston’s Green House International Church.
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