Giants draftee Corey Ballentine called his college roommate’s father Sunday to deliver the devastating news that his son Dwane Simmons had just been shot while the two were out celebrating, according to a report.
As he drove from Kansas City to Topeka, Navarro Simmons hoped his son’s injuries were minor, according to The Wichita Eagle.
Instead, they turned out to be fatal.
“This was a senseless murder,” the grief-stricken father said as more than two-dozen friends and relatives gathered at the Kansas City home of Simmons’ mother Sunday afternoon.
“This shattered a lot of people,” he added.