Deante Strickland, 22, a football and basketball player at Portland State University, died after he was shot in the chest during a visit to his grandmother’s house in the 6200 block of Northeast 42nd Avenue on Aug. 2, 2019.
Deante Strickland’s family showed up in court Tuesday expecting to hear a guilty plea from his sister in the 2019 shooting that left the well-known Portland athlete dead and his grandmother and aunt wounded.
But they walked out devastated when the plea arrangement fell apart as defendant Tamena Strickland told a judge that she didn’t understand the deal.
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