Former Oklahoma defensive lineman Du'Vonta Lampkin killed in Texas shooting

Former Oklahoma Sooners defensive lineman Du’Vonta Lampkin was reportedly shot and killed earlier this week, according to a report from KFOR.com. Lampkin, who was just 25 years old, was reportedly found in an Airbnb in Texas with a single gunshot wound, and he was declared dead at the scene.

“Investigators say when Lampkin was not answering phone calls, a witness went to check on him. When they arrived, they found him suffering from a gunshot wound,” KFOR.com’s K. Querry-Thompson wrote.

Lampkin’s phone, wallet and backpack were all missing when police arrived on scene.

Lampkin spent three years at Oklahoma from 2015-2017. In 2016, he totaled five tackles and two tackles for loss in five games. During the 2017 season, he had 22 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss, and one sack. Lampkin was undrafted in the 2018 NFL Draft.

According to the Dallas Police Department, Lampkin was renting the place where the shooting occurred. He was waiting to move into a new apartment.

Following the end of his collegiate career at Oklahoma, Lampkin participated in rookie minicamp with the Baltimore Ravens and later signed with the Tennessee Titans. He was waived a couple months after he was signed by the Titans, and he did not join another team in the NFL.

During the 2019 season, Lampkin played for the Massachusetts Pirates of the Indoor Football League. He appeared in three games that year with one tackle.

Lampkin, a Houston, Texas native, attended Cy Falls high school, where he put himself on the radar to play college football. He originally committed to the Texas Longhorns before ultimately joining Oklahoma. He was a four-star recruit, a national top 400 player and a top 40 defensive lineman in the 2015 recruiting class, according to the On3 Consensus, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average.