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

[ChiefMojo]

That is exactly what it was... PRIVATE! It should have been left private for only the organization to see but to show it to the general public is a act of trying to memorialise a murderer. That isn't the Chiefs doing but the photographer and website that choose to do it (and I like that website).

I know it is a harsh thing to say but it is true. I understand he is a Chiefs player but he is also a human being like everyone else and should be treated as such. Joe Blow around the corner doing the same act wouldn't have his work picture posted for all the world to see in a memorial fashion.

[Ultra Peanut]

Also, one more important point that gets lost in the raw emotion of everything: You can't punish a dead man. He doesn't have the capacity to care anymore, and no one needs to be convinced of his self-evidently terrible actions. A heated philosophical argument about ~the true measure of a man~ isn't going to help.

[memyselfI]

Originally Posted by ChiefMojo

That is exactly what it was... PRIVATE! It should have been left private for only the organization to see but to show it to the general public is a act of trying to memorialise a murderer. That isn't the Chiefs doing but the photographer and website that choose to do it (and I like that website).

I know it is a harsh thing to say but it is true. I understand he is a Chiefs player but he is also a human being like everyone else and should be treated as such. Joe Blow around the corner doing the same act wouldn't have his work picture posted for all the world to see in a memorial fashion.

Well that is on the photo journalist trying to sensationalize.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Ultra Peanut

Also, one more important point that gets lost in the raw emotion of everything: You can't punish a dead man. No one needs to be convinced of his self-evidently terrible actions. A heated philosophical argument about ~the true measure of a man~ isn't going to help.

Yep. No need to clamor for justice - he gave himself the death penalty.

[memyselfI]

Originally Posted by frazod

Yep. No need to clamor for justice - he gave himself the death penalty.

That apparently is not enough for some people.

[ChiefMojo]

Yes memyselfandI it is on the photographer in the end and he shouldn't have sent in to have the pic published on the site.

[memyselfI]

Originally Posted by ChiefMojo

Yes memyselfandI it is on the photographer in the end and he shouldn't have sent in to have the pic published on the site.

Agreed.

[banyon]

Originally Posted by Marcellus

Yup that would set an example the players would never forget. Kill your GF and self and we will immediately take down your locker!

That should prevent this from ever happening again and further more would remove all conflicted feelings the players have towards their former teammate.

Problem solved.

It's certainly not a matter of teaching a lesson. It's a matter of doing the right thing.

The right thing is not to venerate a horrific murderer.

[memyselfI]

Originally Posted by banyon

It's certainly not a matter of teaching a lesson. It's a matter of doing the right thing.

The right thing is not to venerate a horrific murderer.

And this has been where and by whom?

[dirk digler]

Originally Posted by ChiefMojo

That is exactly what it was... PRIVATE! It should have been left private for only the organization to see but to show it to the general public is a act of trying to memorialise a murderer. That isn't the Chiefs doing but the photographer and website that choose to do it (and I like that website).

I know it is a harsh thing to say but it is true. I understand he is a Chiefs player but he is also a human being like everyone else and should be treated as such. Joe Blow around the corner doing the same act wouldn't have his work picture posted for all the world to see in a memorial fashion.

Seems to me it is the Chiefs that are memorializing a murderer of a teammates family member. Can't blame the photographer for taking a picture of their stupidity.

[RUSH]

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...the-young-man/

To cap an emotional and informative opening segment to Football Night in America, Peter King of Sports Illustrated supplied some new details regarding Saturday’s tragic events in Kansas City.

Citing a source close to law enforcement on the scene, King explained that Jovan Belcher and Chiefs G.M. Scott Pioli separately arrived at the parking lot outside the team’s facility, at approximately 8:00 a.m. local time. Pioli noticed that Belcher seemed very upset. Police say Pioli tried to calm him down.

At the same time, a Chiefs security officer saw that Belcher had a gun in his possession. The security officer called police.

During a short conversation, Belcher thanked Pioli for giving him an opportunity as an undrafted free agent from Maine in 2009. Belcher then asked Pioli to call coach Romeo Crennel and defensive coordinator Gary Gibbs so that he could thank them, too.

Crennel and Gibbs came outside, and Belcher thanked them profusely. He wasn’t willing to talk to them or to be reasoned with. Instead, he repeatedly thanked them.

“I wasn’t able able to reach the young man,” Crennel told King after the game, but Crennel declined to be specific about what Belcher had said.

Belcher then turned around, began to walk away and shot himself in the head.

[Ultra Peanut]

... Christ.

[memyselfI]

Originally Posted by dirk digler

Seems to me it is the Chiefs that are memorializing a murderer of a teammates family member. Can't blame the photographer for taking a picture of their stupidity.

So if Jamal Charles has no problem with it they why the hell should you? I assume if he wanted that jersey gone it would have been.

[banyon]

Originally Posted by memyselfI

And this has been where and by whom?

The players, quite obviously. They wanted to do it by wearing his number and had to have it pointed out that it would not look good. Then there's the locker thing. Then there's your suggestions.

[Hammock Parties]

That seems like he was going there to shoot someone and Pioli stopped him to me.