Shaquille O’Neal
Affords to Pay For 12-Yr-Outdated’s Funeral
… After Scholar Dies In Combat
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March 19, 2026
9:17 AM PDT
Shaquille O’Neal is mourning the loss of life of 12-year-old Jada West, who handed away after a struggle with a classmate earlier this month … and the NBA legend is trying to assist the grieving household by providing to cowl her funeral bills, saying, “No father or mother ought to ever should bury their little one.”
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Workplace revealed the gesture this week … after West, a sixth-grader at Mason Creek Center College in Winston, Georgia, handed away following an obvious off-campus bullying incident with one other pupil on March 5.
The DCSO stated O’Neal, who serves as Chief of Neighborhood Relations for the Henry County Sheriff’s Workplace, was heartbroken by the information and wished to assist the West household by masking the funeral prices so they would not should bear the burden.
“This story touched my coronary heart the second I noticed it within the media,” O’Neal stated.
“As a father, my coronary heart goes out to Jada’s household. No father or mother ought to ever should bury their little one, and if there may be something I can do to ease even a small a part of that burden, then it’s the proper factor to do.”
“Our group should encompass this household with love, assist, and compassion throughout such a painful second.”
This is without doubt one of the many superb gestures from O’Neal, who’s identified for his acts of generosity to his followers — from tipping a waitress $4k to purchasing children sneakers at random.
A GoFundMe was additionally launched for West … and police are nonetheless investigating the incident.
