This is his pops right here(#32)
Rodney Johns.Drafted in the '88 draft along with Steve Kerr
Here's a link to the Arizona Republic article about his suicidal death---Also mentions his sister.
Arizona Republic from Phoenix, Arizona · Page 13
Go down to the bottom of the page and read the "OCR Text"----It's right there.
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Last kiss for mom from fallen star. Ex-Grand Canyon guard lost dreams, his life, and sister's. The Arizona Republic: Mary Johns sat on her bed Wednesday afternoon, holding onto her youngest son, Eddie, weeping. "Why?" she wondered aloud. "Why?" A day earlier, she was embracing another son, Rodney, in her living room, reassuring him that so much richness awaited his life. She knew he was unhappy. She knew he was depressed. She knew that for some time he longed to get back on the basketball court. But, as Rodney Johns always did when he said goodbye to his mother, he smiled, kissed her gently on the cheek and gave her a hug. That was the last goodbye The last hug. A new hue is all that's left to do W Jll J mm VMa v . helping those less fortunate. He was always motivating. She can't believe Rodney, a quiet, peaceful leader throughout much of his life, had a death wish. As he left the house with his sister to a destination she did not know, "He was in a great state of mind," Mary Johns said. "He was not a suicidal person." But, as police try to find clues, close See LAST KISS, page E5 The last smile. About a half-hour later, Mary Johns received the news. Police said Rodney Johns, running at least one stop sign, drove his 1987 Cadillac with his sister accompanying him at speeds in excess of 80 mph into a concrete retaining wall. It was not far from the south Phoenix housing project in which he grew up and inspired so many neighborhood youths in basketball. Rodney, 31, and his sister, Deborah Peters, 36, were killed on impact. j Why? Mary Johns wonders, wiping tears, planning for a funeral she cannot pay for. Rodney did not have insurance, she said. She paints a hopeful picture of her son, the hero of Grand Canyon University's 1988 national-championship team. Rodney, she said, was one of the strongest-minded people she knew. He was always caring, always By Richard Obert As the hero of Grand Canyon University's 1988 national championship team, Rodney Johns was on top of the world. But his life later began to unravel. On Wednesday, Johns' life and that of his sister, Deborah Peters, tragically came to an end."
He drove into a concrete wall, which was basically the side of a freeway.The impact left a crack in the wall that was there for years.
This a real nicca matriculating down your computer screen.....They gone learn to respek me like I'm grandpa around this bytch