Chiefs' Player Jevon Belcher involved in murder-suicide, shoots self at Arrowhead

[MoreLemonPledge]

No details yet. Just came across on the news.

edit: Sources say the player is Jovan Belcher. Police have yet to confirm.

An unnamed Kansas City Chiefs player has committed suicide at the team facility and authorities are on the scene, the police confirmed to ESPN on Saturday morning.

Local reports say police are operating with the belief the player fatally shot his girlfriend at a house before driving to Arrowhead Stadium and killing himself at around 8 a.m local time. The Associated Press reported the player's age to be 25.

"We can confirm that there was an incident at Arrowhead earlier this morning," the Chiefs said in a statement. "We are cooperating with authorities in their investigation."

There were no other injuries at the team facility, police said.

The Chiefs (1-10) were preparing to host the Carolina Panthers on Sunday.

The NFL has told the Panthers to travel as planned to Kansas City on Saturday, the Charlotte Observer has reported, citing interim general manager Brandon Beane.


http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/86...-team-facility

[savchief]

Originally Posted by Nightfyre

Sure, if you are a giant, attention-seeking, drama-queen of a weeping vagina.

Wow, overreact much ****brain? When the hell is stupid going to start being painful and the world would be rid of assholes like you? i would just call you a shit sucking, sister****ing, dirt eater, but I see you're from Alabama, and that would be redundant. Don't bother responding, won't get anything else from me.

[Nightfyre]

Originally Posted by savchief

Wow, overreact much ****brain? When the hell is stupid going to start being painful and the world would be rid of assholes like you? i would just call you a shit sucking, sister****ing, dirt eater, but I see you're from Alabama, and that would be redundant. Don't bother responding, won't get anything else from me.

You trying to prove my point for me?

[memyselfI]

http://m.kctv5.com/w/main/story/80072899/

Here it is. POLICE admitting they let him skate.

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by memyselfI

http://m.kctv5.com/w/main/story/80072899/

Here it is. POLICE admitting they let him skate.

I'm betting several people lose their jobs
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[stonedstooge]

Car was running, he lied about driving and the cops let him off anyway? Uh oh.

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by stonedstooge

Car was running, he lied about driving and the cops let him off anyway? Uh oh.

He wasn't actually driving though. He was passed out.
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[lewdog]

Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

He wasn't actually driving though. He was passed out.
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Yea no shit. He was probably ****ing cold so he started it to get some heat while he slept.

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by lewdog

Yea no shit. He was probably ****ing cold so he started it to get some heat while he slept.

Still gets you a dui though
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[lewdog]

Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

Still gets a dui though
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Yes I know, and it is pretty likely he drove to where he was sleeping in the car.

[ShowtimeSBMVP]

KC police release video of Belcher encounter a few hours before shooting
By MATT CAMPBELL
The Kansas City Star

Police dash cam video of Jovan Belcher car check



A Kansas City police video of officers talking with Jovan Belcher hours before he killed his girlfriend and took his own life appears to show a cordial encounter in which officers had no cause to suspect the Kansas City Chiefs player was doing anything other than sleeping in his car — which is not a crime.

The 10-minute dash cam video shows officers approaching Belcher’s black Bentley, which was parked in the 700 bock of Armour Boulevard at 3:05 a.m. last Saturday. The officers were responding to a caller who said a man had been sleeping in the car for about two hours.

The officers tap on the window to awaken Belcher and ask him what was he is doing. The audio does not begin until nearly five minutes into the video. Belcher’s responses are difficult to hear, but he appears to be telling officers he is the rightful owner of the expensive car that had temporary tags.

“It’s nice,” says an officer at the passenger side of the car. “I’m not saying you stole it. I like it, dude, it’s nice...What do you do? Oh, really?”

Police say Belcher told them he was waiting for his girlfriend who lived in the building. One of the officers tells Belcher he should go inside.

“You just need to go upstairs,” the officer says. “We’re trying to cut you a break here.”

Police later said officers asked Belcher to call his girlfriend and Belcher made a call from his cellphone. A short time later, a woman opened the apartment building door and let Belcher inside. Two women later verified to detectives that Belcher stayed at the apartment until 6:30 a.m., when they woke him. The women told police that Belcher had asked them to wake him so he would not be late for a team meeting later that morning.

Belcher, 25, apparently left their apartment and drove to the 5400 block of Crysler Avenue in east Kansas City, where he shared a home with his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, 22, and their 3-month-old daughter.

The couple had a confrontation after he arrived home and Belcher shot Perkins multiple times.

Belcher then drove to the Chiefs’ practice facility near Arrowhead Stadium, where he talked to general manager Scott Pioli, head coach Romeo Crennel and linebackers coach Gary Gibbs before shooting himself once in the head.

Police later determined that Belcher had been partying in the Power & Light District earlier that evening. There has been speculation that the subsequent violence might have been avoided if police had given Belcher a sobriety test or otherwise detained him when they encountered him sleeping in his car.

But police spokesman Capt. Steve Young said Friday there was no reason for officers to do either.

“There was no cause for a field test,” Young said. “The responding officers did not smell any alcohol. As you can see, there is no stumbling, there is no slurring. You need pieces in place to give a field sobriety test. You need indications.”

Despite the remark about cutting Belcher a break, Young said the officers did not show him any special treatment. Sleeping in your car is not illegal, but the officers wanted Belcher to go inside because he didn’t need to be there and otherwise there might be further calls to police.

Young added that even if Belcher had been arrested, he typically would have bonded out within 45 minutes or so.

“And then you’re not even at 4 o’clock yet,” he said.

Police also on Friday released video and audio of officers responding to the reported shooting at Arrowhead Stadium. An officer can be heard confirming that a player for the Kansas City Chiefs was shot. Another officer says he has not heard of Belcher.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/12/07...#storylink=cpy

[stonedstooge]

Originally Posted by ChiefsandO'sfan

KC police release video of Belcher encounter a few hours before shooting
By MATT CAMPBELL
The Kansas City Star

Police dash cam video of Jovan Belcher car check



A Kansas City police video of officers talking with Jovan Belcher hours before he killed his girlfriend and took his own life appears to show a cordial encounter in which officers had no cause to suspect the Kansas City Chiefs player was doing anything other than sleeping in his car — which is not a crime.

The 10-minute dash cam video shows officers approaching Belcher’s black Bentley, which was parked in the 700 bock of Armour Boulevard at 3:05 a.m. last Saturday. The officers were responding to a caller who said a man had been sleeping in the car for about two hours.

The officers tap on the window to awaken Belcher and ask him what was he is doing. The audio does not begin until nearly five minutes into the video. Belcher’s responses are difficult to hear, but he appears to be telling officers he is the rightful owner of the expensive car that had temporary tags.

“It’s nice,” says an officer at the passenger side of the car. “I’m not saying you stole it. I like it, dude, it’s nice...What do you do? Oh, really?”

Police say Belcher told them he was waiting for his girlfriend who lived in the building. One of the officers tells Belcher he should go inside.

“You just need to go upstairs,” the officer says. “We’re trying to cut you a break here.”

Police later said officers asked Belcher to call his girlfriend and Belcher made a call from his cellphone. A short time later, a woman opened the apartment building door and let Belcher inside. Two women later verified to detectives that Belcher stayed at the apartment until 6:30 a.m., when they woke him. The women told police that Belcher had asked them to wake him so he would not be late for a team meeting later that morning.

Belcher, 25, apparently left their apartment and drove to the 5400 block of Crysler Avenue in east Kansas City, where he shared a home with his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, 22, and their 3-month-old daughter.

The couple had a confrontation after he arrived home and Belcher shot Perkins multiple times.

Belcher then drove to the Chiefs’ practice facility near Arrowhead Stadium, where he talked to general manager Scott Pioli, head coach Romeo Crennel and linebackers coach Gary Gibbs before shooting himself once in the head.

Police later determined that Belcher had been partying in the Power & Light District earlier that evening. There has been speculation that the subsequent violence might have been avoided if police had given Belcher a sobriety test or otherwise detained him when they encountered him sleeping in his car.

But police spokesman Capt. Steve Young said Friday there was no reason for officers to do either.

“There was no cause for a field test,” Young said. “The responding officers did not smell any alcohol. As you can see, there is no stumbling, there is no slurring. You need pieces in place to give a field sobriety test. You need indications.”

Despite the remark about cutting Belcher a break, Young said the officers did not show him any special treatment. Sleeping in your car is not illegal, but the officers wanted Belcher to go inside because he didn’t need to be there and otherwise there might be further calls to police.

Young added that even if Belcher had been arrested, he typically would have bonded out within 45 minutes or so.

“And then you’re not even at 4 o’clock yet,” he said.

Police also on Friday released video and audio of officers responding to the reported shooting at Arrowhead Stadium. An officer can be heard confirming that a player for the Kansas City Chiefs was shot. Another officer says he has not heard of Belcher.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/12/07...#storylink=cpy

Bullshit coppers.

[ShowtimeSBMVP]

Cops did nothing wrong IMO.

[ShowtimeSBMVP]

[CoMoChief]

If I remember it wasn't cold that night. Why was his car running? Why was he passed out? He was probably drunk and tried to get some ass. This Kassandra Perkins girl finds out somehow and when he gets home a fight breaks loose and Belcher snaps because he's taking a bunch of rx drugs for concussion syndromes (a lot of players take that shit and end up getting addicted to them like Favre.) and Belcher pulled a Chris Benoit and just ****in snapped. He's sane enough to know what he had done and bolted and went to his safehouse...by then the world as he knows it is crashing down on hime when he hears the sirens and he snaps again and can't deal with it and takes the easy road out.

[BossChief]

So, the cops got called because Belcher was waiting outside of an apartment for his other girlfriend?