B-W Parkway crash kills former basketball standout Outtz
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A 32-year-old Greenbelt man who had starred in basketball at schools in the Washington region was killed early Saturday in a car crash on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway near Cheverly, the U.S. Park Police said.
Jabari Outtz, who had been a standout at Good Counsel High School and at Howard and James Madison universities, was killed about 3:30 a.m. just north of New York Avenue, the police said.
According to police, he was a passenger in a car that left the northbound lanes, crossed the median and struck a stone wall at the far edge of the parkway's southbound lanes, the Park Police said. The driver was treated at a hospital for minor injuries and released, police said.
At about 5 feet 10, Outtz was an All-Met guard at Good Counsel in Wheaton. In his three seasons there, the team went 79-15. At Howard, he was Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference freshman of the year.
He transferred to James Madison, in Harrisonburg, Va., where coach Sherman Dillard hailed him as "a terrific player." In one game against American University, he reeled off eight consecutive free throws in the last 3 minutes and 4 seconds to help his team score a come-from-behind victory.
He closed his James Madison career with 24 points in a tournament game in March 2000. He was a member of the CAA first team.
His sister Hasina said he went on to play basketball on semipro teams in the D.C. area and on professional teams in Europe. Recently, he had been studying for an MBA at the University of Phoenix, she said.
His parents, James and Janice Outtz, and sister live in Upper Marlboro, and his sister said he had strong ties here.
He had many friends, she said, and "he had a heart of gold."
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