Tyvez Monroe Obituary, Tyvez Monroe Has Sadly Passed Away Unexpectedly

A former star basketball player for Augusta University was shot and killed the day after Christmas in Washington, DC, The day after Christmas in Washington, DC, a former standout basketball player for Augusta University was shot and died.

Around 4:30 in the morning, Deonte Spicer reportedly approached Monroe while she was seated at a bus stop outside the metro station, according to WRC-TV. The TV station said that Spicer is said to have taken out an AR-15 and shot Monroe after they exchanged fist bumps and spoke for a short while.

Police eventually arrested Spicer and charged him with first-degree murder, WJBF reported.

Monroe’s grandfather, Rickey Cruse, was at a DC-area vigil for his grandson over the weekend where he remembered him as always being the peacekeeper.

Monroe was sitting at a bus stop outside the L’Enfant Plaza Metro station in Southwest D.C. when 36-year-old Deonte Spicer of Northwest D.C. approached him with an unleashed dog before 4:30 a.m. They exchanged fist bumps and talked for a few minutes before Spicer unzipped his jacket and pulled out an AR-15.

“There was never any conflict,” Cruse said to WRC. Never got into any altercations. Not at all like that. He constantly attempted to defuse tense situations.

“He was liked by a lot of people, you know,” his father, Darryl Monroe, said at the vigil. “He was a good-hearted guy. He was into sports, basketball, community.”