Son of Hawks assistant charged with murder

By Christian Boone

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The son of Hawks assistant coach and former NBA All-Star guard Nick Van Exel was arrested Wednesday and charged with murdering a close friend.

A Dallas police spokesman said Nickey Van Exel, 20, shot Bradley Bassey Eyo at a residence in the 6900 block of George Brown Drive in Garland, Tex. then dumped the body near Lake Ray Hubbard less than a mile way. Investigators quickly focused on Van Exel, who turned himself in to authorities on Wednesday, as a suspect, police said.

The younger Van Exel's attorney said his client and Eyo were playing with a shotgun Saturday when it accidentally fired, according to the Associated Press. Van Exel "panicked" and moved the body, the attorney said.

Van Exel is being held in lieu of $1 million bail.

http://www.ajc.com/news/son-of-hawks-assistant-791378.html

[Edited 12/31/10 8:15am]

Has no one learned from Jason Williams? Dumb ass.

On a side note, I didn't even know that Nick Van Exel was coaching anywhere, let alone for the Hawks.

You have to be KIDDING ME with this shit!!! Playing with a shotgun???

"Uh, yeah. I panicked. Umm, in my panicked state, I figured the best thing to do was pick up a dead body, load it by myself in my car, drive over to a secluded part of Lake Ray Hubbard, make sure no one was watching, and then dump the body where hopefully no one would find it. Yeah, I panicked. That's the ticket!"

Same ol' same ol'. Sad.

more dumb ass behavior.

I'm not buying the "playing with a gun and panicked so I hid the body" story. I think they were arguing over some foolishness, probably a continuation of a previous argument, and lil Nickey shot lil Bassey with every intention of killing him. He hid the body so as not to get caught. Watch, somebody will eventually come forward and speak about a "bad rift" between the two.

$1 million bail? Does daddy have that kind of money?

Here in DFW it was on the news that Nicky VanExcel's bond was decreased to 25,000 and he is out on bond

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2...or-murder/

nursev said:

Here in DFW it was on the news that Nicky VanExcel's bond was decreased to 25,000 and he is out on bond

Wow....now that's a big drop. He is very fortunate. Some judge must believe his story. Either that or he's got one of the best attorney's out there.

DesireeNevermind said:

nursev said:

Here in DFW it was on the news that Nicky VanExcel's bond was decreased to 25,000 and he is out on bond

Wow....now that's a big drop. He is very fortunate. Some judge must believe his story. Either that or he's got one of the best attorney's out there.

Daddy got money-seems he and his victim were childhood friends and lived across the street from each other

nursev said:

DesireeNevermind said:

Wow....now that's a big drop. He is very fortunate. Some judge must believe his story. Either that or he's got one of the best attorney's out there.

Daddy got money-seems he and his victim were childhood friends and lived across the street from each other

Childhood friends...get a load of that. I'm still not buying that a couple 20 year olds were "playing" with guns. That is so friggin' bizarre to me.

http://www.cbssports.com/...4/26826161

says hes out on bond

DesireeNevermind said:

nursev said:

Daddy got money-seems he and his victim were childhood friends and lived across the street from each other

Childhood friends...get a load of that. I'm still not buying that a couple 20 year olds were "playing" with guns. That is so friggin' bizarre to me.

Yeah something is not right with this one Something shady musta went down or it was a spur of the moment killing Ain't no 20 yr olds just "playing with guns"

DesireeNevermind said:

nursev said:

Here in DFW it was on the news that Nicky VanExcel's bond was decreased to 25,000 and he is out on bond

Wow....now that's a big drop. He is very fortunate. Some judge must believe his story. Either that or he's got one of the best attorney's out there.

Might not be that he believes his story. Just that he doesn't consider him much of a flight risk.

FauxReal said:

DesireeNevermind said:

Wow....now that's a big drop. He is very fortunate. Some judge must believe his story. Either that or he's got one of the best attorney's out there.

Might not be that he believes his story. Just that he doesn't consider him much of a flight risk.

I'll go on him having a good attorney.