The Henry County, Georgia police have identified a shooting victim as Stockbridge High School basketball star DeVale Johnson. Johnson star point guard, who is set to graduate in June and attend Cincinnati State College on a full basketball scholarship, will probably be spending his summer rehabbing a gun-shot wound rather than training for his first year of college ball. Johnson was shot in his lower back region after reportedly going to a designated spot to fight over a girl.
“Evidently it had something to do with a female,” Henry police Lt. Joey Smith told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Thursday. “They were going to meet to fight, have a brawl, and the brawl turned into somebody getting shot.” What the shooting revealed to cops was a secluded piece of high school land where teenagers meet to hang out and duke it out on regular occasions, Smith told The AJC. The teens from around Henry County accessed the Eagle Landing High School property by trails through the woods from a nearby subdivision. Estimates of the crowd size at the fighting grounds was between 10 and 20, he said. Not everyone came to duke it out.
Doctor said its a blessing I’m alive I do this for my family tried to set me up and I’m still here waiting to see my unc
— DV (@DeValeJohnson) May 14, 2015
God is real just thankful to see another day
— DV (@DeValeJohnson) May 14, 2015
There is a valuable lesson to be learned here by DeVale Johnson: never put yourself in a position to risk what you have, by dealing with people who have nothing to risk at all. I’m sure that Johnson thought he was doing an honorable thing by fighting over a woman, but at the end of the day, you have a bright future in front of you and it doesn’t make sense to put that in jeopardy over a teenage relationship. Here’s to hoping that this young man has a speedy recovery, and will adhere to the words of the great Radric Davis “Girls are like buses, miss one, next 15 one coming.”