Belcher: Head Injuries, Pain Meds, Alcohol Abuse
Chiefs linebacker Belcher struggled with head injuries, alcohol and painkillers before he snapped and killed girlfriend: report
ansas City Chiefs linebacker and former Long Island high-school star Jovan Belcher was allegedly battling football-related head injuries and booze, painkiller and domestic problems when he snapped and murdered his girlfriend before killing himself in front of two coaches Saturday. A pal of Belcher’s told the Web site Deadspin.com that Kasandra Perkins, the mother of Belcher’s 3-month-old daughter, had threatened to leave him for good amid fighting between the pair. The couple had only recently reconciled after Perkins left their rented house in Kansas City with the baby at one point to stay with friends. Perkins had returned, but friends said the relationship was still volatile. http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2012...1--300x450.jpg Kansas City Chiefs running back Jovan Belcher (right) battled head injuries, drugs and alcohol before he snapped and killed his girlfriend Michele Perkins (left), friends said. BELCHER'S MOM WILL RAISE ORPHANED BABY ON LI FOLLOWING TRAGEDY It didn’t help that he was drinking every day and taking painkillers while dealing with the effects of debilitating head injuries, the friend said. Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt said today that Belcher was "a player who had not had a long concussion history.’’ Belcher, 25, and Perkins, 22, had argued for the last time when she returned home late from a concert Saturday morning. But the Belcher friend said the concert was only a “tipping point.” “This was the result of a long-term conflict,” the pal said. “She made it clear that she was leaving and would contact a lawyer’’ to fight for custody and child support. Cops today revealed that Belcher shot Perkins nine times before committing suicide with a different gun. His mother witnessed the slaying; she had been in town to help Perkins with the new baby, sources have said. Belcher’s mother, Cheryl Shepherd, will now take custody of the couple’s infant daughter and plans to return with the child to the family’s West Babylon home, where her troubled son grew up, his relatives said. The kin said the baby was in another room when Belcher snapped and unloaded on Perkins. “[Shepherd’s] taking it as anyone else would've taken it,” said Belcher’s cousin, Eric Oakes, 20, who lives in the mom’s renovated house where Belcher grew up. “She just lost a son. We're all coming together.” Oakes, wearing a game-warn Chief’s jersey with Belcher’s number 59 on it, said his cousin was his role model. "[He's] always trying to steer me right. That's the only person I wanted to be like. A role model, basically my father. He's the person who made me play football,” said Oakes, who played running back for West Babylon HS. In Kansas City, relatives trickled in an out of the home that had become a murder scene. “I think she was home alone a lot,” said Kristen Van Meter, 31, a neighbor who went to community college with the victim. “He was kind of quiet. he would come and go.” When he was there, she said, there were lots of parties. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/g...Wl3vKf4Jasj5EP |
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Belcher was a RB?
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If I were Kassandra's parents I'd be in court fighting for that baby. No way in hell would I be willing to let his mother simply have it.
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A lot has been said about Crennel & Pioli seeing Belcher kill himself. Well the mother witnessed her daughter get shot 9 times. This is the worst of it all. I cannot imagine what that woman is feeling today.
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Addicted to alcohol pain mess and suffering head trauma effects... Roger Goodell, why is your league still testing for weed again?
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I wondered when they would say this with concussions, but I don't remember him ever having a concussion. I don't doubt concussions are bad, but you can't blame everything on them.
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Not surprising no other media is picking up on this part of the story.
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Blaming the concussions is a cop out. Bull shit. Take football away and he is still an angry dumb **** of a human. Adding the drugs and alcohol only fulled his domestic attack of brutality.
How many players get a concussion then go & murder someone? |
Lou_Zare: Reposts, Qs, Things Already Posted
Chiefsplanet poster Lou_Zare struggled with reposts, Qs and things already posted before he snapped and reposted: report
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His lifestyle, un-met expectations of his life, career and drug abuse. His neglected wife leaving was the what sent him over it sounds like. I don't feel sorry for him. I never feel sorry for people that take their own lives. What I feel bad about are the people these pussies left in their wake. |
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