A tragic, senseless killing of Devante Bryant in New Orleans has led to former LSU star and current Kansas City Chiefs star DB Tyrann Mathieu stepping up and paying for the funeral of the 9-year-old.
“I wanted to help the Bryant family because I am from the 7th Ward and I felt that pain,” Mathieu said in a statement from his agency. “I have a 7-year-old son that lives in New Orleans and I couldn’t imagine something happening to him at that age. He is only 2 years younger than Devante.
“Devante didn’t even have a chance to live his life before it was tragically taken away from him. My goal is to help stop the violence and help my community to show and empower children from my community that there is another way, one child at a time.”
Bryant was fatally shot in a triple shooting Monday evening in the 7th Ward. Two other children were wounded in the shooting, for which police do not yet have a suspect.
Bryant’s father, Donald Bryant, said Devante will be buried July 31 on what would have been his 10th birthday.
