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

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Originally Posted by Cassel's Reckoning

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

He obviously didn't go there to shoot Pioli...

[banyon]

Originally Posted by memyselfI

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.

Who said JC didn't have a problem with it?

[Munson]

Here's an article off the Drudge Report:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/g...Wl3vKf4Jasj5EP

Chiefs linebacker Belcher struggled with head injuries, alcohol and painkillers before he snapped and killed girlfriend: report

By TARA PALMERI and BART HUBBUCH in KANSAS CITY, MO., and LEONARD GREENE in NY

Last Updated: 7:23 PM, December 2, 2012
Posted: 5:32 PM, December 2, 2012

Kansas 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.


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.
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.

[banyon]

Originally Posted by Cassel's Reckoning

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

That's what I said earlier when I was commenting on the multiple guns story.

You don't switch guns and then travel all the way to the stadium because you are in the heat of passion.

[memyselfI]

Originally Posted by Cassel's Reckoning

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

I don't get that at all. It sounds to me like he drove there because that is where he felt safe. Pioli sounds rather hero-ish in this scenario. Standing there with an upset man with a gun. He obviously did not feel threatened or did not feel Belcher was a threat to anyone otherwise he would not have called Crennel and the other coach to come out.

[memyselfI]

Originally Posted by banyon

Who said JC didn't have a problem with it?

It was there, wasn't it? Do you think they'd fail to ask him or if he said to remove it they'd ignore him knowing that it was his wife's cousin who died?

[memyselfI]

Originally Posted by banyon

That's what I said earlier when I was commenting on the multiple guns story.

You don't switch guns and then travel all the way to the stadium because you are in the heat of passion.

He lives minutes from the stadium.

[dirk digler]

Originally Posted by banyon

That's what I said earlier when I was commenting on the multiple guns story.

You don't switch guns and then travel all the way to the stadium because you are in the heat of passion.

He had multiple guns?

[memyselfI]

Originally Posted by banyon

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.

Wanting to and actually doing it are two different things. Again, where are the actions that venerate a murderer.

Leaving his uniform where it always was in his locker is not a celebrating or honoring of a murderer.

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by banyon

That's what I said earlier when I was commenting on the multiple guns story.

You don't switch guns and then travel all the way to the stadium because you are in the heat of passion.

Either he wanted to off himself with his favorite gun or something else...

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Originally Posted by dirk digler

He had multiple guns?

See, this makes me really sad. He could have done the old Blood(video game) "Guns' Akimbo" on Peeholi.

[TheGuardian]

Well some of this makes sense now.

I had dinner with someone last night who told me that jovan had gone out with her cousin a few times the last few weeks. She knew Jovan and I were friends and I was surprised because I told her that Jovan just had a baby. He had told her cousin that he and his girlfriend weren't together, but I knew nothing of the sort. He and I never talked about personal stuff like that. So it looks like he wasn't lying.

9 times......jesus christ. That's anger and rage. That makes sense if he were drunk and on pills.

So weird in relation to all of the things we always talked about. I won't get into it. It just saddens me.

[banyon]

Originally Posted by memyselfI

It was there, wasn't it? Do you think they'd fail to ask him or if he said to remove it they'd ignore him knowing that it was his wife's cousin who died?

Who knows? Like you've said many times today, they had a lot on their mind. Maybe they didn't ask him, or the people in charge of the locker room maintenance didn't know JC's wife was her cousin.

You simply assumed his tacit approval. Maybe he didn't think to comment on it because he had enough to think about as well, or even notice it, hopefully.

[HMc]

Originally Posted by Cassel's Reckoning

Either he wanted to off himself with his favorite gun or something else...

Maybe he had two guns - emptied one when killind the GF and then just picked up another after that...

[Bob Dole]

Originally Posted by banyon

That's what I said earlier when I was commenting on the multiple guns story.

You don't switch guns and then travel all the way to the stadium because you are in the heat of passion.

Bob Dole has multiple firearms in the house. One in each vehicle. One in each of his two offices.

It's not really all that odd.