"He Didn't Have to do it...But He Did"

NBA great Shaquille O'Neal pays for Shaniya's funeral

The death of 5 year old Shaniya Davis received national attention a few weeks ago.  The gruesome circumstances surrounding her death has not only left the Fayetteville, NC community in shocked and disbelief, but it also left one NBA great, like many others, in tears.

"I was sitting at home watching it on the news and the story brought a tear to my eye," Shaq, as he is commonly known, told The Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper.


He first asked to get in touch with the Lockhart family on Nov. 18, the day after the State Medical Examiner's office confirmed that a child's body found in Lee County on Nov. 16 was in fact Shaniya's.

You know this story has flew under the radar for a week and some change now and I'm sure Shaq would prefer for it to be this way.  He didn't have to do it, but he did and that alone deserves high praise.  Bless his heart!