Jovan Belcher was one sick son of B****

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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

[notorious]

Originally Posted by KCWolfman

Most people would and do.

Hence the "honest fans"


I know it doesn't bother me as much as some people.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by notorious

Hence the "honest fans"

I know it doesn't bother me as much as some people.

Well, if it REALLY bothered people, they wouldn't be able to be fans.

The league is full of 20-somethings, many who come from very difficult backgrounds.

You can't field a team of choir boys, there aren't enough of them.

[KCWolfman]

Originally Posted by notorious

Hence the "honest fans"


I know it doesn't bother me as much as some people.

I dunno. I have complained (even on this board and the old KC Star one) when men of lesser character have been brought to the team. It just irritates me that anyone could state hiring unsavory characters started with Pioli.

I am no fan of Pioli, but let's not blame him for assisted murder.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by Duck Dog

Chances are good that if they had lived the life style of a parent, at home with their 3 month old baby, they both might still be alive. 20 somethings need to socialize but aren't mature enough to change when a baby is involved.

Well, at least those two weren't.

It's absolutely true; Ol' Kasi shouldn't have been at some crappy Rhyme N' Bass lusty soft-porn sleaze fest, and Daddy Jovan shouldn't have been out getting drunk and chasing the muff around.

At 1AM, with a 3-month old baby...any decent human beings would have been home asleep with their kid. Especially when one of them has to be at the team facility in a few hours for a team meeting then a walkthrough.

Like, you'd think Belcher would've wanted to be home with his daughter and get rested up so he could put all his energy into trying to win an upcoming game...but in reality, fans probably care more about the games than the majority of players (like Belcher.)

Hate to sound callous, but **** Jovan and Kasi. Selfish fools, natural selection's a bitch. Stay home with your kid, get rested for work. 'Hanging in da club' is about the most ridiculous crock of horseshit anyway. Trey Songz is ****ing terrible; generic, sophmoric digitized BS that is literally about nothing more than intercourse (every. single. song.) If you have no culture, no couth...if you watch garbage, listen to garbage and do garbage thigs, your life will probably be garbage, too.

Stay home with your kids, go to bed early, act like a real family, ****. In America, it's 'cool' to NOT be close to your family, 'do your own thing, be your own person, etc.' There is no personal accountability. Jovan and Kasi were a couple of ****ing idiots, living a hollow, bullshit life - so selfish, that even WITH their ample financial resources, they weren't capable of taking care of a child. Probably why Belcher's mom was there in the first place.

****ing losers.

[Easy 6]

This thread, ****...

All of that common cause, goodwill and unity, adios.

Its going to be a painful offseason around here.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by scott free

This thread, ****...

All of that common cause, goodwill and unity, adios.

Its going to be a painful few years around here.

fyp

this franchise won't be getting much better anytime soon. They're dysfunctional mess from top to bottom; from absentee owner to disgruntled parking lot attendants...

This team is ****ed.

[KCWolfman]

Originally Posted by scott free

This thread, ****...

All of that common cause, goodwill and unity, adios.

Its going to be a painful offseason around here.

I don't know about around here, but I certainly hope it is painful at 1 Arrowhead in the off-season. This would assure their desire to improve all around and help those who may need help in the future.

[BIG_DADDY]

There are some seriously self-riteous mother ****ers in here.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by BIG_DADDY

There are some seriously self-riteous mother ****ers in here.

staying home with your kid instead of going out and getting drunk is self-righteous??

Or have our ****ing standards for human decency become a non-entity??

[KCWolfman]

Originally Posted by Driving Wheel

staying home with your kid instead of going out and getting drunk is self-righteous??

Or have our ****ing standards for human decency become a non-entity??

His mother (who just came into town) was with the baby, and probably having a ball doing it.

I went out without my kids after they were born. It is normal.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by scott free

This thread, ****...

All of that common cause, goodwill and unity, adios.

Its going to be a painful offseason around here.

That was kind of my point earlier this morning.

And it isn't just this board.

The fanbase is fractured. The tipping point HAS to be right around the corner.

[pkane]

Originally Posted by KCWolfman

His mother (who just came into town) was with the baby, and probably having a ball doing it.

I went out without my kids after they were born. It is normal.

Till 1am or 7am. I don't think its normal to leave a 2.5 month old with the babysitter until those hours.

[Chief_For_Life58]

Originally Posted by KCWolfman

His mother (who just came into town) was with the baby, and probably having a ball doing it.

I went out without my kids after they were born. It is normal.

you probably didnt have to work at 930 in the morning the next day when u went out though.

[Chief_For_Life58]

Originally Posted by BigRock

Kind of reminds me of Chris Benoit putting Bibles by his wife and son after he killed them. Except he had hours to have done that. How do you go from that kind of rage to remorse in just a matter of seconds?

****ing hell.

being a ****ing psychopathic murderer with deep deep issues, thats how

[DaKCMan AP]

Originally Posted by Driving Wheel

it's part of why he dropped to the 4th rd, but to say we should never have drafted him, because he's an alcoholic??

Favre's an alcoholic; he had a drug/alcohol withdrawl induced seizure and almost died while having offseason surgery prior to the SB season...but he cleaned himself up and had a pretty decent career by any standards.

Based on your logic, Favre shouldn't have been drafted. Nor Lawrence Taylor, Ken Stabler, Joe Namath, etc. Just a couple LEGENDS that are/were sever alcoholics...

It's not my logic. It's goatcheez's logic.