Shaquille O’Neal is offering to pay for the funeral of a 12-year-old Georgia girl who died a few days after she collapsed following a fight after school.
The former NBA superstar said he doesn’t want the family of Jada Smith to deal with the financial burden of a funeral while grieving for the sixth grader, who died at a hospital March 8.
“As a father, my heart goes out to Jayda’s family,” O’Neal said in a statement. “No parent should ever have to bury their child, and if there is anything I can do to ease even a small part of that burden, then it is the right thing to do.”
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