Seattle SuperSonics legend Shawn Kemp has been charged with first-degree assault from an alleged drive-by taking pictures in March.
Kemp allegedly shot a gun in a Tacoma mall parking zone after a confrontation between occupants of two vehicles. Nobody was injured.
He was launched from a Washington jail the following day.
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Shawn Kemp of the Seattle SuperSonics shoots throughout a recreation March 18, 1997, on the United Middle in Chicago. (Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE through Getty Photographs)
Kemp says he had property stolen from his automotive and was appearing in self-defense, a supply near the previous NBA star stated. Kemp tracked his lacking iPhone to the Tacoma Mall, and when he approached a automobile, a suspect shot at him, and he fired again in self-defense, he says.
Kemp will plead not responsible, his lawyer, Scott Boatman, advised ESPN.
Kemp, 53, spent eight seasons in Seattle, a franchise that moved to Oklahoma and have become the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder.
Shawn Kemp (40) of the Seattle SuperSonics in 1996 at Arco Enviornment in Sacramento, Calif. (Sam Forencich/NBAE through Getty Photographs)
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Seattle performed the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls within the 1996 NBA Finals and misplaced in six video games.
Kemp retired after spending the 2002-03 season with the Orlando Magic.
He averaged 14.6 factors and eight.4 rebounds per recreation in his profession after being the seventeenth general decide within the 1989 NBA Draft.
Shawn Kemp of the Cleveland Cavaliers reacts after hitting a shot within the fourth quarter of a playoff recreation in opposition to the Indiana Pacers. (Reuters)
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After basketball, he pivoted to enterprise possession. He opened two marijuana dispensaries within the Seattle space after the state legalized the sale of leisure weed.
Fox Information’ Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.
