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DeAndre Hopkins Donates Playoff Check to Jazmine Barnes' Family After Her Death

Houston Texans wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins said he's playing Saturday's playoff game against the Indianapolis Colts in honor of Jazmine Barnes, a seven-year-old girl fatally shot by an unidentified gunman in the Houston area Sunday morning.

Yahoo Sports passed along an Instagram post from Hopkins, who pledged his game check to help Barnes' family cover funeral costs and support efforts by the Harris County Sheriff's Office to find the killer:

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.@DeAndreHopkins is donating his playoff check to the family of Jazmine Barnes u2764ufe0f https://t.co/sXo0B0GYCe

Nick Valencia, Holly Yan and Steve Almasy of CNN reported police are searching for a "bearded white male in his 40s" who was driving a red pickup truck and fired into the family's car, which was driven by Barnes' mother and had three other children inside.