2016年4月27日 · TAMPA — Mike Evans was 9 years old and asleep upstairs with his sister at their home in Galveston, Texas, the night his father, Mickey, was stabbed repeatedly and shot to death.

2024年1月21日 · Mike eventually forgave his uncle when he grew up and understood what led to the events of that night. Sam Kilgore is serving a life sentence in prison after killing his cellmate in 2006. Mike...

2016年4月27日 · Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans detailed the horrific childhood he endured in an E:60 profile that aired on ESPN on Tuesday. Evans' father was murdered by his uncle in 2002 after...

2022年12月23日 · Mike Evans has enjoyed a successful football career. But he faced a tragedy when he was younger when his uncle killed his father. It was a story he told to Cris Carter on his podcast that...

Evans' maternal uncle, enraged by the abuse his sister endured, murdered Mickey when Evans was 9 years old. [ 166 ] [ 167 ] Having experienced domestic violence during his childhood, Evans and his wife Ashli founded the Mike Evans Family Foundation in December 2017 to help victims of domestic violence. [ 168 ]

According to ESPN’s E:60 segment, his uncle, Sam Kilgore, murdered Evans’ father in 2002. Evans was a nine-year-old sleeping upstairs, unaware of the reason for the tragedy. Later, he would...

2016年4月26日 · The fact that it was Evan's uncle, Sam Kilgore, who murdered his father makes the story even more compelling. Though still young, Mike would visit him in prison and even overcame his anger to...

2016年4月26日 · Mickey Evans was murdered by Mike's uncle, Sam Kilgore. Mickey Evans abused his wife, Heather Kilgore, and her brother eventually shot him to death over that abuse.

2024年11月10日 · Evans had a particularly tragic childhood. When he was just 9 years old, his father, Mickey, was killed by his uncle after Mickey had reportedly subjected Mike Evans’ mother to physical abuse. This was in 2002, and he admittedly was angry about this for a long time.

2016年4月26日 · Evans tells reporter Lisa Salters how he dealt with the death of the man he called his childhood hero -- and how, through a gut-wrenching process, that he was finally able to forgive the man that...