Lavelle Felton

Lavelle Felton

Felton c. 2008
Personal information
Born	(1979-10-05)October 5, 1979 Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Died	August 13, 2009(2009-08-13) (aged 29) Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Listed height	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Career information
High school	Madison (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
College	Chipola JC (1999–2001) Louisiana Tech (2001–2003)
NBA draft	2003 / Undrafted
Playing career	2003–2009
Position	Guard
Career history
2003–2005	Büyük Kolej
2005–2006	Iraklis Thessaloniki
2006	ASVEL Villeurbanne
2006–2007	AEK Athens
2007–2008	Science City Jena
2008–2009	Paderborn Baskets

Lavelle R Felton (October 5, 1979 – August 13, 2009) was an American professional basketball player playing in the European professional basketball leagues.

Amateur career[]

Nicknamed "Velle" or "Romie", he had played in Madison High School in Milwaukee and then played college basketball with the Louisiana Tech University's Bulldogs where he averaged 13.7 points and 5.1 rebounds a game in 2002–03.

Professional career[]

He started his professional basketball career in the Turkish Basketball League's Büyük Kolej for two years, before moving on to Greece and France and finally landing in Germany playing for Paderborn Baskets club in the German Basketball Bundesliga, helping the club reach the playoffs.

Death and involvement[]

Felton was out with friends at a nightclub on the morning of August 12, 2009. They were celebrating his recent success, as he was about to sign a new contract with Germany. Lavelle was fatally shot and seriously wounded by an unknown gunmen while in his driver's seat about to depart from a Milwaukee gas station around 2 am local time, dying of his wounds just one day later.^[1] He had a five-year-old stepson, a four-year-old son, and a two-year-old daughter with his girlfriend.^[2]

Evidence was found in the gas station parking lot, as well as in the adjacent yard, which showed the gunmen had fired south in the yard to the north towards the gas station in close range, which further validated this was a deliberate act against Felton. For several years, detectives with the Milwaukee Police Department have gotten bits of information in the case, but there have been no charges. In July 2019, the firearm that was used to kill Felton was located while a separate investigation was in progress which brought detectives to the North Side of Milwaukee near the location of the gas station.

See also[]

• List of basketball players who died during their careers
• List of unsolved murders

References[]