Monday, July 25, 2011

Former UK Basketball Player Fatally Shot

  • {Kentucky}...Police in Ohio say former Kentucky basketball player 30 year old Desmond Allison died Monday after being shot in  in the chest at an apartment complex in Columbus. Allison was a starter as a freshman on the 1998-1999 UK team and played for UK from 1998-2000 until he was kicked off the team by Tubby Smith in March of 2000 after a DUI arrest. Allison was arrested four times in a seven month span on drug charges several years ago. In 2007, he began playing indoor football in South Dakota. Allison was pronounced dead at Grant Medical Center in Columbus at 3:54 P.M.