New York Jets' Abram Elam Loses Third Sibling to Gunfire - FanHouse - AOL Sports Blog

Donald Elam Jr., the brother of New York Jets defensive back Abram Elam, was murdered Friday. It was the third an Elam sibling was shot and killed.

"We're handling it, thanks to the Lord," Elam's father, the Rev. Donald Elam Sr., told the New York Daily News Saturday.

Abram Elam previously had a 12-year-old sister and an 18-year-old brother shot and killed, with all three murders taking place within a mile of the family's home in Riviera Beach, Florida.

There have been no arrests in the death of Donald Elam Jr., who was in and out of prison for much of his life and at age 14 was the youngest person ever charged with murder in Palm Beach. He was acquitted of that charge but was convicted at other times of assault, robbery and weapons charges.

Abram Elam knows the experience of having a sibling die all too well. His half-brother Donald Runner was shot and killed in 1987. His sister Christina Elam was shot and killed in 1999; the Daily News reports that he ran to the park and cradled her blood-soaked body afterward.