Texans wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins has dedicated Saturday's game to Jazmine Barnes, a 7-year-old girl who was killed Sunday in a drive-by shooting in Houston.
"On Saturday, I will be playing in your honor, Jazmine," the three-time Pro Bowler tweeted Thursday.
Hopkins said he will donate his $29,000 playoff check to help pay for
funeral costs and said he would join in the effort to bring Barnes'
killer to justice.
"What I can do, that's nothing, that won't
bring back a person," Hopkins said Thursday. "I'm not trying to make it
out about me or anything like that. It's the least I could do."
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A $100,000 reward is now available for information leading to the arrest of the killer, social justice activist Shaun King announced.
And more than 1,600 donors have contributed to a GoFundMe account for Jazmine's funeral expenses and family,
as the girl's mother recovers from a gunshot wound and some of her
three sisters recover from injuries caused by shattered glass in the
attack.
Jazmine Barnes was a second-grader at Monahan Elementary School in Houston.
Jazmine will be memorialized Tuesday during the "Justice for Jazmine Barnes Community Rally."
The event will honor "all murdered victims in Houston/Harris County," organizers said.
Services for Jazmine will begin at 10 a.m. (11 a.m. ET) Tuesday with a viewing at Green House International Church, followed by her funeral at noon.
Afterward, mourners will release purple balloons in her memory.
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