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Northwestern Hoops Player Seemed ‘Happy’ Before Suicide
JORDAN HANKINS
The Cook County medical examiner says Northwestern women’s basketball player Jordan Hankins committed suicide in her dorm room last week.
The office released the re- sults of an autopsy last Tues- day, a day after the body of the 19-year-old Hankins was found.
Jared Hankins, Jor- dan’s younger brother and a sophomore on the Lawrence North High School varsity bas- ketball team, told the Indi- anapolis Star on last Monday night that his sister seemed in good spirits when he and his parents visited her at North- western for a game.
“We talked for the last time a week ago and everything seemed good,” he said. “She was happy.”
Hankins was recruited out of the same high school in In- dianapolis. She averaged 3.6 points in 11 games this season.
Coach Joe McKeown called the 5-foot-8 sophomore a “remarkably dynamic young woman,” while Jared re- flected on his profound rela- tionship with his sister.
“She meant a lot to me,” Jared, 15, said of Jordan. “She was my role model.”
BEAUTY UNLIMITED
LIVVY
This week’s Beauty Unlimited feature is Livvy. This young ladycomes fully equipped with a level of maturity usually notattributed to one so young, and a vision to keep growing untilshe gets where she wants to be. Livvy is always the center ofattention, and handles it with humbleness and charm. She al- soenjoys having the light shine on the people around her.
A Hot Prospect, And
Bears Need A QB
The Chicago Bears' quar- terback search is about to heat up.
The speculation about how high Deshaun Watson will be drafted has never been hotter after he led Clemson to the national championship by completing 36 of 56 pass attempts for 420 yards and three touchdowns.
No. 3? The Bears are ex- pected to be in the quarter- back market with the likely departure of Jay Cutler, whose guaranteed money is coming off the books, but some analysts don't even have Watson going in the first round, much less No. 3.
"In my mind, there is no more important position
DESHAUN WATSON
than the quarterback," Bears general manager Ryan Pace said last week. "It is a critical, critical position. And I know and I recognize that the deci- sion that we make on that quarterback is going to be significant for all of us for the direction that this organiza- tion is going to head."
Ex-No. 1 Pick Anthony
Bennett Headed To Turkey
After Release From Nets
Former No. 1 overall pick Anthony Bennett's next stop is Turkey after his re- lease by the Brooklyn Nets, according to league sources.
Sources say that Bennett is finalizing a deal with Turk- ish club power Fenerbahce, which would give him an op- portunity to play in the Eu- roleague this season.
Bennett was drafted No. 1 overall out of UNLV by Cleve- land in 2014. He was traded to Minnesota after his rookie season along with 2014 No. 1 overall pick Andrew Wig- gins in the Kevin Love deal and joined the Nets over the summer after spending the bulk of the 2015-16 season
ANTHONY BENNETT
with the Toronto Raptors in his native Canada. Bennett played in 23 games this sea- son with Brooklyn, averaging 5.0 points and 3.4 rebounds in 11.5 minutes per game. The Nets replaced him on the ros- ter by signing veteran big man Quincy Acy to a 10-day deal.
Man Acquitted In Killing Of Reggie Bullock's Sister
A Baltimore jury has ac- quitted a man of all charges in the 2014 killing of the trans- gender sister of Detroit Pis- tons forward Reggie Bullock.
The Baltimore Sun re- ported that Shawn Oliver of Hagerstown, Maryland, was acquitted of all charges Thurs- day.
Oliver, 46, was charged with first-degree murder in the July 2014 stabbing death of 26-year-old Mia Hender- son in West Baltimore.
Investigators found Oliver's DNA under Hen- derson's fingernails. But de- fense attorney Isabel Lipman said Oliver and Henderson had consensual
REGGIE BULLOCK AND MIA HENDERSON
sex the night before Hender- son's body was found. Lip- man said phone records indicate that Oliver returned to Hagerstown while Hen- derson was still alive.
Oliver is currently serving a 10-year sentence for a 2015 drug conviction.
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