Their Dad Was Like a Brother. Now Pacman Jones is Family.

Their sister, Seini Hicks, a 16-year-old basketball player being eyed by several colleges, joined them this year. (Hicks is Tonga’s daughter from a previous relationship.)

“We’ve done a really collectively, I feel, a great job of really making sure that they know their father and his presence,” Tishana Jones said.

Throughout their youthful, heady days, Jones and Chris Sr. felt like only they understood what it meant to operate under the N.F.L. microscope, gifted with money, fame and no road map for managing it all.

They talked often on the phone, losing hours laughing, always ending their calls by promising each they would be all right.

Then one day the calls stopped.

Days before Christmas in 2009, Henry, then a Cincinnati Bengals receiver, was bickering with Tonga, his fiancée, at her Charlotte, N.C., home. As she left the house, he climbed into the bed of her pickup but later fell from the moving truck and died from his injuries at the age of 26.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/sports/football/pacman-jones-chris-henry.html