A Dallas County jury is deliberating the fate of a man accused of killing former professional basketball player Andre Emmett.
Emmett’s death was captured on a home surveillance camera on Sept. 23, 2019. He was sitting in his vehicle outside his home at about 2:30 am when investigators said two people approached him and tried to rob him, police said. Emmett was shot, police said, as he ran away. The final moments of 37-year-old Emmett’s life were captured on home surveillance cameras outside his Old East Dallas condo.
Police said a passer-by called 911 after finding Emmett several hundred feet from his home.
Larry Jenkins was accused of killing Emmett after a witness told Dallas Police that he was the person who pulled the trigger. Two other men, Michael Lucky and Keith Johnson are also charged with capital murder in Emmett’s slaying.
Emmett’s family said he was a talented basketball player, but he was most proud of being a family man and father to two little girls, ages 2 and 3.
“His girls were and are his life,” said his sister, Sasha Emmett. “They don’t really know what’s going on, but they were with him all the time and he’s going to be absent in their lives now.”
Emmett was a standout player at Dallas Carter High School who went on to play at Texas Tech and in the NBA with the Grizzlies and Nets.
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