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ShowtimeSBMVP · 01:20 AM

Exclusive: As troubles at home simmered, Chiefs tried to help Jovan Belcher
Police said the team was providing counseling to Jovan Belcher and his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins. But Belcher, before taking his own life in the parking lot of the Chiefs’ practice facility, said it wasn’t enough to fix their problems.
By CHRISTINE VENDEL
The Kansas City Star

Seconds after fatally shooting his longtime girlfriend, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher leaned over her in their master bathroom, said he was sorry and kissed her on the forehead.

His mother, who heard gunfire as she stood in the kitchen, rushed to her son’s bedroom and watched his remorseful goodbye.

Belcher apologized to his mother, kissed his 3-month-old daughter and fled his rented home in the 5400 block of Crysler Avenue in his Bentley.

The Star learned those details and others from multiple police sources Monday as officers continued their investigation into why Belcher, 25, killed his live-in girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, 22, on Saturday morning. Arguments over relationship and financial issues had simmered for months between them, according to the sources.

Belcher’s mother, who came from New York to live with her son so the couple could work through their issues, didn’t hear much of the argument. But just before 8 a.m., she heard her son say something to the effect of: “You can’t talk to me like that!”

Then she heard gunfire.

Afterward, Belcher drove to the only place he felt safe — to his other family at Arrowhead Stadium, police said.

As he covered the five miles from his home to the stadium, his violent act weighed on him, police believe.

“He probably realized he had done something and he couldn’t go back,” said Police Sgt. Richard Sharp.

In the parking lot of the practice facility at 1 Arrowhead Drive, Belcher encountered Chiefs General Manager Scott Pioli. Belcher stepped out of his Bentley with a gun pointed at his own head, police said.

“I did it,” he said, according to police. “I killed her.”

Club officials knew about the couple’s problems. The Chiefs had provided counseling and “were bending over backward” to help, Sharp said.

But Belcher told Pioli that the assistance wasn’t enough to fix their problems and now, “It was too late.”

When another Chiefs employee arrived, Pioli told him to stay back. Meanwhile Pioli tried to persuade Belcher to lay down the weapon, Sharp said.

Belcher thanked Pioli for everything he had done for him. He asked if he and Clark Hunt would take care of his daughter.

Chiefs Head Coach Romeo Crennel and linebackers coach Gary Gibbs arrived in the parking lot and Belcher reportedly announced, “Guys, I have to do this.”

Crennel tried to dissuade him.

“I was trying to get him to understand that life is not over,” Crennel told The Star. “He still has a chance and let’s get this worked out.’’

As Pioli and Crennel tried to reason with Belcher, the men heard police sirens closing in. Belcher then walked a few steps away with the gun still pointed at his head.

“I got to go,” Belcher reportedly said. “I can’t be here.”

Belcher knelt behind a vehicle and made the sign of the cross across his chest before firing a single bullet into his head.

Kansas City police believe Belcher killed himself because he was distraught over what he had done to Perkins.

“He cared about her,” Sharp said. “I don’t think he could live with himself.”

The night before the killings, Perkins had attended a concert downtown with friends, and Belcher had “partied” at the Power and Light District, police said. It was unclear when they arrived home, where Belcher’s mother was watching their baby. A woman who answered Belcher’s mother’s cell phone Monday declined to comment.

Detectives don’t know what specifically sparked the argument between the couple at home, but a friend of Perkins told The Star that the couple argued around 1 a.m. Saturday when Perkins returned home from the Trey Songz concert and drinks with friends afterward. Belcher was mad she had stayed out so late, the friend said.

Sometime later, Kansas City police talked with Belcher after finding him asleep in his Bentley on Armour Boulevard. Officers determined he was able to drive himself home. Police believe he arrived home about 7 a.m., well before a 9:30 team meeting. That’s when the yelling began.

Police said youth, immaturity and financial pressures served as a backdrop. During his college years, Belcher allegedly punched a dormitory window because he was upset over a woman.

Autopsies with toxicology tests were performed on both bodies, but results will take weeks, police said. Investigators believe alcohol may have played a role in the argument’s escalation.

Police recovered several legally owned guns from Belcher’s home. Investigators were testing each one, and the gun found with Belcher’s body, against shell casings and bullets they recovered.

Police spokesman Darin Snapp said Monday that Belcher’s mother, who had been staying with the couple, was given temporary custody of the couple’s daughter. But he said it was unclear if the grandmother and baby were still in the Kansas City area.

Perkins, who grew up in Texas, met Belcher, who grew up in New York, through a cousin, Whitney Golden Charles, the wife of Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles. Perkins moved to Kansas City in 2010 to be with Belcher. Her relatives learned of her death from the news, police said. A woman who answered the phone at a relative’s home Monday declined to comment.

Monday afternoon, the family issued a statement that spelled Perkins’ first name with a double s, though she spelled it with one on her Facebook page:

“On behalf of the Perkins Family, we appreciate the outpouring of love and concern for our Kassandra ‘Kasi’ Perkins. Our hearts are truly broken for Kasi was a beloved daughter, granddaughter, sister, mother, cousin and friend.…

“Please keep us in your hearts and prayers as well as the Belcher family for two lives were loss. Again we thank you for your support, our wish is for Kasi to be remembered for the love she shared with us all. Kasi will be truly missed!”

Jamaal Charles also released a statement: “Our family has suffered a personal tragic loss.… As this is a very tough time for our family, I ask that we are respected as we grieve. Kassandra was not only family, but a friend and a loving mother. As my actual family and my Kansas City Chiefs family have been altered forever, we ask that you keep us and most importantly their child in prayer. Thank you all for your continued support.”

Later Monday, Belcher’s somber relatives provided statements outside of Belcher’s boyhood home in New York. Yamiesse Lawrence, a cousin of Belcher’s, said the weekend’s events were an “inconceivable tragedy.”

“As a family, no words can express the sorrow we feel over the loss of Jovan and Kasandra,” Lawrence read aloud.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/12/04...#storylink=cpy

ARROW2 · 12-04-2012, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Driving Wheel

You don't 'get it.'

I'm done with you.

Hopefully you don't ever have children.

My kids are fine bitch...

TLO · 12-04-2012, 01:09 PM

JFC... Arrow, Wheel, and stupid bitch need banned for this cat fight. I"d settle with just stupid bitch being banned.

burt · 12-04-2012, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Driving Wheel

Not that I expect you to understand me or where I come from.

Ditto.

rabblerouser · 12-04-2012, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by ARROW2

And you whine about me bringing up race?

. Bottom line, if you don't accept Christ, who's name you have used in vain, as your savior, you don't get in the pearly gates.....bottom line.....Talk all the earth junk you want...

did those evil child molesters from the church you referenced earlier teach you that???

As for the race comment, you were race-baiting me, trying to say I didn't like Trey Songs because it was 'black music'...WHEN ALL I LISTEN TO IS 'BLACK MUSIC', YOU ****ING IGNORANT RACIST reerun.

Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Guitar Slim, James Brown, P-Funk, Luther Allison - the list goes on and on and on.

I know more about the history of black music than you, you ****ing dolt.

I said 'white word for life' simply because...my people didn't call it that, and neither did Africans. The concept of a Christian God comes from Anglo culture.

FACT, you stupid mother****er.

It's people like you who are the ****ig problem in this world. I hope you're ****ing sterile, so you don't spread your ignorant simpleton DNA to future generations.

rabblerouser · 12-04-2012, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by ARROW2

My kids are fine bitch...

Omf, help us all.

rabblerouser · 12-04-2012, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Big Smoke

JFC... Arrow, Wheel, and stupid bitch need banned for this cat fight. I"d settle with just stupid bitch being banned.

forget it; I'm out.

Some men...you just can't reach.

burt · 12-04-2012, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Driving Wheel

It always does. It so much easier for people to point at those they don't understand and to use the very stereotypes that they hypocritically denounce themselves.

It's funny, how the quantity of people who have 'educations' has increased exponentially...but the 'quality' of the education offered now is laughable.

Not only are the kids I go to school with completely ****ing oblivious...but the teachers are ****ing stupid, as well.

So, I'm used to handling the faux-righteous indignation of the one-dimensional thinkers...I do it every day.

cause you are just that smart! JFC!

burt · 12-04-2012, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Driving Wheel

did those evil child molesters from the church you referenced earlier teach you that???

As for the race comment, you were race-baiting me, trying to say I didn't like Trey Songs because it was 'black music'...WHEN ALL I LISTEN TO IS 'BLACK MUSIC', YOU ****ING IGNORANT RACIST reerun.

Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Guitar Slim, James Brown, P-Funk, Luther Allison - the list goes on and on and on.

I know more about the history of black music than you, you ****ing dolt.

I said 'white word for life' simply because...my people didn't call it that, and neither did Africans. The concept of a Christian God comes from Anglo culture.

FACT, you stupid mother****er.

It's people like you who are the ****ig problem in this world. I hope you're ****ing sterile, so you don't spread your ignorant simpleton DNA to future generations.

Stupid people ALWAYS resort to cursing........

rabblerouser · 12-04-2012, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by burt

Stupid people ALWAYS resort to cursing........

Pussies always chime in with their $.02 but don't have jack shit to say themselves.

ARROW2 · 12-04-2012, 01:17 PM

Uh, I highly doubt you listen to more of it than me and I know you don't know more about the history than me.. You think listing a few old school acts makes you knowledgeable? that's laughable.....I can list more funk bands and R&B acts than I have space for in this window in rapid fire son...They used to say Earth Wind and Fire music was devil music if you played it backwards...but whatever.....So you don't believe that Christ died for our sins? If not, I have nothing more to say on that subject...That explains it all.

ARROW2 · 12-04-2012, 01:19 PM

Just because a few pastors are false prophets doesn't make the word of God false.

burt · 12-04-2012, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Driving Wheel

Pussies always chime in with their $.02 but don't have jack shit to say themselves.

And still too stupid to refrain from cursing.....

Keyboard tough guy!!!

Please don't hurt little ol' me!!!

Is this Reapers mult?

rabblerouser · 12-04-2012, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by ARROW2

Uh, I highly doubt you listen to more of it than me and I know you don't know more about the history than me.. You think listing a few old school acts makes you knowledgeable? that's laughable.....I can list more funk bands and R&B acts than I have space for in this window in rapid fire son...They used to say Earth Wind and Fire music was devil music if you played it backwards...but whatever.....So you don't believe that Christ died for our sins? If not, I have nothing more to say on that subject...That explains it all.

Sure, Christ died for your sins. I think the Roman Jews persecuted him for other reasons, and that a large part of the Bible is missing; thus, the fallacy in man's organized religion...

As far as the music thing...I'm not gonna get into a pissing contest - you're probably a lot older than me, but I have devoted my life to music. Studying, listening, playing...went to Paseo (when it was a performing arts school), CMSU for a music tech degree (got an A in the History and Development of Jazz) and played guitar in the University Jazz Ensemble...at MU now, getting a Bachelor's in Sociology and a minor in journalism. I play bass in a blues band now, opening for Tab Benoit tonight (just got here, actually - about to go load-in)...so, let's just say I know who Earth Wind & Fire is. Harvey Brooks, Buddy Miles, Bootsy, etc.

So, idk what the point is...but I'm not as stupid as you assert.

rabblerouser · 12-04-2012, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by burt

And still too stupid to refrain from cursing.....

Keyboard tough guy!!!

Please don't hurt little ol' me!!!

Is this Reapers mult?

Holy heck, wash your eyes out with bleach and ammonia, so you don't go to H-E-double hockey sticks.

FAX · 12-04-2012, 01:26 PM

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12-04-2012, 12:57 AM
ShowtimeSBMVP Chiefs Join Date: Feb 2009 Casino cash: $1196009	Jovan Belcher was one sick son of B**** Exclusive: As troubles at home simmered, Chiefs tried to help Jovan Belcher Police said the team was providing counseling to Jovan Belcher and his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins. But Belcher, before taking his own life in the parking lot of the Chiefs’ practice facility, said it wasn’t enough to fix their problems. By CHRISTINE VENDEL The Kansas City Star Seconds after fatally shooting his longtime girlfriend, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher leaned over her in their master bathroom, said he was sorry and kissed her on the forehead. His mother, who heard gunfire as she stood in the kitchen, rushed to her son’s bedroom and watched his remorseful goodbye. Belcher apologized to his mother, kissed his 3-month-old daughter and fled his rented home in the 5400 block of Crysler Avenue in his Bentley. The Star learned those details and others from multiple police sources Monday as officers continued their investigation into why Belcher, 25, killed his live-in girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, 22, on Saturday morning. Arguments over relationship and financial issues had simmered for months between them, according to the sources. Belcher’s mother, who came from New York to live with her son so the couple could work through their issues, didn’t hear much of the argument. But just before 8 a.m., she heard her son say something to the effect of: “You can’t talk to me like that!” Then she heard gunfire. Afterward, Belcher drove to the only place he felt safe — to his other family at Arrowhead Stadium, police said. As he covered the five miles from his home to the stadium, his violent act weighed on him, police believe. “He probably realized he had done something and he couldn’t go back,” said Police Sgt. Richard Sharp. In the parking lot of the practice facility at 1 Arrowhead Drive, Belcher encountered Chiefs General Manager Scott Pioli. Belcher stepped out of his Bentley with a gun pointed at his own head, police said. “I did it,” he said, according to police. “I killed her.” Club officials knew about the couple’s problems. The Chiefs had provided counseling and “were bending over backward” to help, Sharp said. But Belcher told Pioli that the assistance wasn’t enough to fix their problems and now, “It was too late.” When another Chiefs employee arrived, Pioli told him to stay back. Meanwhile Pioli tried to persuade Belcher to lay down the weapon, Sharp said. Belcher thanked Pioli for everything he had done for him. He asked if he and Clark Hunt would take care of his daughter. Chiefs Head Coach Romeo Crennel and linebackers coach Gary Gibbs arrived in the parking lot and Belcher reportedly announced, “Guys, I have to do this.” Crennel tried to dissuade him. “I was trying to get him to understand that life is not over,” Crennel told The Star. “He still has a chance and let’s get this worked out.’’ As Pioli and Crennel tried to reason with Belcher, the men heard police sirens closing in. Belcher then walked a few steps away with the gun still pointed at his head. “I got to go,” Belcher reportedly said. “I can’t be here.” Belcher knelt behind a vehicle and made the sign of the cross across his chest before firing a single bullet into his head. Kansas City police believe Belcher killed himself because he was distraught over what he had done to Perkins. “He cared about her,” Sharp said. “I don’t think he could live with himself.” The night before the killings, Perkins had attended a concert downtown with friends, and Belcher had “partied” at the Power and Light District, police said. It was unclear when they arrived home, where Belcher’s mother was watching their baby. A woman who answered Belcher’s mother’s cell phone Monday declined to comment. Detectives don’t know what specifically sparked the argument between the couple at home, but a friend of Perkins told The Star that the couple argued around 1 a.m. Saturday when Perkins returned home from the Trey Songz concert and drinks with friends afterward. Belcher was mad she had stayed out so late, the friend said. Sometime later, Kansas City police talked with Belcher after finding him asleep in his Bentley on Armour Boulevard. Officers determined he was able to drive himself home. Police believe he arrived home about 7 a.m., well before a 9:30 team meeting. That’s when the yelling began. Police said youth, immaturity and financial pressures served as a backdrop. During his college years, Belcher allegedly punched a dormitory window because he was upset over a woman. Autopsies with toxicology tests were performed on both bodies, but results will take weeks, police said. Investigators believe alcohol may have played a role in the argument’s escalation. Police recovered several legally owned guns from Belcher’s home. Investigators were testing each one, and the gun found with Belcher’s body, against shell casings and bullets they recovered. Police spokesman Darin Snapp said Monday that Belcher’s mother, who had been staying with the couple, was given temporary custody of the couple’s daughter. But he said it was unclear if the grandmother and baby were still in the Kansas City area. Perkins, who grew up in Texas, met Belcher, who grew up in New York, through a cousin, Whitney Golden Charles, the wife of Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles. Perkins moved to Kansas City in 2010 to be with Belcher. Her relatives learned of her death from the news, police said. A woman who answered the phone at a relative’s home Monday declined to comment. Monday afternoon, the family issued a statement that spelled Perkins’ first name with a double s, though she spelled it with one on her Facebook page: “On behalf of the Perkins Family, we appreciate the outpouring of love and concern for our Kassandra ‘Kasi’ Perkins. Our hearts are truly broken for Kasi was a beloved daughter, granddaughter, sister, mother, cousin and friend.… “Please keep us in your hearts and prayers as well as the Belcher family for two lives were loss. Again we thank you for your support, our wish is for Kasi to be remembered for the love she shared with us all. Kasi will be truly missed!” Jamaal Charles also released a statement: “Our family has suffered a personal tragic loss.… As this is a very tough time for our family, I ask that we are respected as we grieve. Kassandra was not only family, but a friend and a loving mother. As my actual family and my Kansas City Chiefs family have been altered forever, we ask that you keep us and most importantly their child in prayer. Thank you all for your continued support.” Later Monday, Belcher’s somber relatives provided statements outside of Belcher’s boyhood home in New York. Yamiesse Lawrence, a cousin of Belcher’s, said the weekend’s events were an “inconceivable tragedy.” “As a family, no words can express the sorrow we feel over the loss of Jovan and Kasandra,” Lawrence read aloud. Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/12/04...#storylink=cpy Last edited by ShowtimeSBMVP; 12-04-2012 at 01:20 AM..
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ARROW2 MVP Join Date: Mar 2002 Casino cash: $9094329	Uh, I highly doubt you listen to more of it than me and I know you don't know more about the history than me.. You think listing a few old school acts makes you knowledgeable? that's laughable.....I can list more funk bands and R&B acts than I have space for in this window in rapid fire son...They used to say Earth Wind and Fire music was devil music if you played it backwards...but whatever.....So you don't believe that Christ died for our sins? If not, I have nothing more to say on that subject...That explains it all.
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