Chiefs player commits suicide at Chiefs facilty

[manchild98]

Wow...no name yet.

 

[manchild98]

It appears it is 25 year old LB Jovan Belcher.

 

[manchild98]

It sounds like he was confronted by coaches in the parking lot (I assume trying to help him) and then he pulled the trigger on himself.

He shot and killed his girlfriend at home before driving to Arrowhead.

 

[tbone413]

It sounds like he was confronted by coaches in the parking lot (I assume trying to help him) and then he pulled the trigger on himself.

He shot and killed his girlfriend at home before driving to Arrowhead.

Good lord.this is a sickening story. someone who is suicidal obviously is very sick and needs help, but to go and take the life of the women you "love" and who trusted you just so you can die "together" is the most absurd, disgusting thing you can do. I feel bad for him since he obviously was mentally ill, but he is a fucking coward.

 

[biggunsbob]

Holy crap..So darn sad.. I agree with everything Tbone said..

 

[turok]

Someone posted on B/R that he has a 3 month old infant with his slain girlfriend, it was very unlikely that Belcher could have been coaxed into surrendering to the authorities after murdering her. I hope and pray that the infant survived if so.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap10...iefs-player-fatally-shoots-himself-police-say

 

[zoombabyzoom]

http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php...rder-suicide-that-ended-at-arrowhead-stadium/

 

[kingofdetroit57]

Wow, what a messed up story. I feel bad for the coaches/officials who witnessed it. It sounds like it might have been Pioli and Crennel from the article I read. That's gotta really fuck with your head to be put in that position.

 

[Mitchrapp]

Rot in hell.

 

[manchild98]

Wow, what a messed up story. I feel bad for the coaches/officials who witnessed it. It sounds like it might have been Pioli and Crennel from the article I read. That's gotta really fuck with your head to be put in that position.

Definitely. You can't unsee that.

 

[turok]

Apparently Belcher killed (shot her multiple times) his on-off girlfriend and baby-momma in a rage over just a fucking concert that Kasandra Perkins had attended the night before, that's insane jealousy and over the top psychopathic behavior if true:

http://www.kansas.com/2012/12/01/2587238/source-belcher-murder-suicide.html

So this guy may very well have had some deep-seated anger issues. to say the least. I wonder if he was doped up and/or drunk at the time. I am guessing that she stayed out late, maybe a couple of hours beyond the end of the concert, after leaving him at home with their infant and his mother who was visiting from NY.

http://m.kansascity.com/kcstar/db_41535/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=aahCf9F8

 

[kingofdetroit57]

I read something on the Deadspin article comments (take it for what it's worth), that in college he flipped out over a girlfriend, punched out a window with steel wire in it, completed severed his thumb off, and nearly bled to death. If true, he sounds a little nuts about women.

 

[manchild98]

Yeah you have to either be a jealous lunatic or have mental problems to kill your 22 year old GF and then yourself (and you are a 25 year old LB in the NFL making great money) knowing you have a 3 month old little girl. Hopefully, there is a special place in hell for this cat.

It says he thanked coach Crennel and GM Pioli and then shot himself.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher fatally shot his girlfriend Saturday, then drove to Arrowhead Stadium and committed suicide in front of his coach and general manager.

Authorities did not release a possible motive for the murder-suicide, though police said that Belcher and his girlfriend, 22-year-old Kasandra M. Perkins, had been arguing recently. The two of them have an infant child.

Belcher thanked general manager Scott Pioli and coach Romeo Crennel before shooting himself in the parking lot of the team's practice facility, police spokesman Darin Snapp said. Police had locked it down by midmorning and reporters were confined to the street just outside the gates.

"The description matched the suspect description from that other address. We kind of knew what we were dealing with," Snapp said. The player was "holding a gun to his head" as he stood in front of the front doors of the practice facility.

"And there were Pioli and Crennel and another coach or employee was standing outside and appeared to be talking to him. It appeared they were talking to the suspect," Snapp said. "The suspect began to walk in the opposite direction of the coaches and the officers and that's when they heard the gunshot. It appears he took his own life."

The coaches told police they never felt in any danger, Snapp said.

Linebackers coach Gary Gibbs was also outside when the shooting occurred, a team official told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter.

"They said the player was actually thanking them for everything they'd done for him," he said. "They were just talking to him and he was thanking them and everything. That's when he walked away and shot himself."

 

[evolutionkb]

This is fucked up on so many levels.

 

[turok]

I read something on the Deadspin article comments (take it for what it's worth), that in college he flipped out over a girlfriend, punched out a window with steel wire in it, completed severed his thumb off, and nearly bled to death. If true, he sounds a little nuts about women.

An ex-EMT who claims to have worked @UMaine also commented on that Deadspin article, stating that he was one of the EMTs on the scene after Jovan Belcher had punched out that mesh-wired basement window, he was found sitting on a sidewalk in a pool of blood, and posted he passed out on the way to the ER from blood-loss. He verified that Belcher had also badly cut his wrist and completely severed his thumb, but the surgeons at the hospital were able to successfully reattach it to his hand.

 

[boogerlovejoy]

There better not be a moment of silence in the stadium or any patches or stickers on the players jerseys for this guy.

Murderers don't deserve that respect.

 

[manchild98]

There better not be a moment of silence in the stadium or any patches or stickers on the players jerseys for this guy.

Murderers don't deserve that respect.

There is going to be a moment of silence at the game.

 

[adam86107]

There is going to be a moment of silence at the game.

The moment of silence is going to be for victims of domestic violence, not for the murderer.

 

[tomdalton22]

The moment of silence is going to be for victims of domestic violence, not for the murderer.

Unfortunately most of the people there will think it is a moment of silence for the murdering d-bag that played for their team. There is too much media attention on him killing himself. IMO he did the right thing after killing the mother of his child. I hope he burns in hell!

 

[byco42]

I wouldn't wish hell on anyone. Not my call. But the NFL needs to get serious about the culture its cultivating. This is getting epidemic; the deaths of players in their prime. Makes the actual NFL enterprise a detriment to society. That game should have been postponed by the NFL to illustrate that this stuff has to end.