Talk of the Sound has been getting a good deal of traffic from a Connecticut web site. A review of our web traffic turned up the cause; a sad story today that related to a story we had run last year.
New Haven Register: New Haven basketball star shot dead
NEW HAVEN — A former Hillhouse High School basketball star who later played in college was shot to death early today.
Donnell Allick, 31, was shot as many as five times at about 1:45 a.m. at an apartment at 201 Diamond St. in the city’s Beaver Hills neighborhood and later died at Yale-New Haven Hospital.
Two quotes jumped out from the New Haven story:
1. “Unfortunately he made a bad decision as a young man and he to spend some time in jail. But he came home and he was attempting to get his life back on track,” Carolina said.
2. A resident, Tasha Hill, said Allick lived in the complex until about five years ago. She never knew him to have any problems and said he was well know for his skill on the basketball court.
Well…he had one problem, at least…
Westchester County Police arrested two persons Thursday afternoon and seized 1,000 small bags of heroin and more than $9,000 in cash following a traffic stop on the Hutchinson River Parkway in New Rochelle.
According to WCPD, Police Officer Steven Stromberg was patrolling the northbound Hutch near Weaver Street about 12:07 p.m. when he stopped a 2008 Dodge Avenger after observing a traffic violation. Stromberg determined that the car was a rental that was supposed to have been returned to the rental company on April 14. In addition, the driver had a suspended license.
According to Lucian Chalfen, spokesperson for the Westchester County District Attorney’s office, Allick pled guilty to Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance 4 on October 7th 2010 and was sentenced on November 18th 2010 to Shock Probation/Time Served. He pled guilty to a C Drug Felony and was sentenced to 6 months in the Westchester County Jail with the remainder of the 5 year period on probation.
He played his Freshman year in college for Providence. He played at Seward Community College. He was kicked off his Junior College team. He was recruited by Oklahoma but not offered a scholarship. He ended his career at Louisiana Tech, a credit shy of graduating, where he averaged 12.3 points and 3.8 rebounds per game in his senior season.