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.

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[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

but this whole thread has turned into YOU.


are you saying you are dumb?

well...I'm still replying.

Not the brightest crayon in the box...probably the upper-echelon of average.

So...yes, look at what I've been arguing with. I'd say it's been pretty dumb, and a total waste of time.

I got shit to do anyway.

Dumb shit...but not nearly as dumb as this.

Touché, Mr. Sauto...

[burt]

Originally Posted by Driving Wheel

You don't know me very well.

At the Pittsburg game last year, this giant Jarhead Steeler fan and I got in a little jawing...and he poked me a couple times. Dude was like 6'6'', at least 250. I'm 6'0" and 175 soaking wet after a big meal - not exactly Hulk Hogan.

The second time he poked me, I told him, 'look dude, you're way bigger than me and you were in the military; you and I both know that you can kick my ass 10 out of 10 times...but if you poke me again, I'm gonna punch you in the ****ing face, right here in front of your wife and daughter.'

He apologized and sat down, and he enjoyed the rest of the game...I had to endure it, as Tyler Palko literally threw away a great game by the D and ST, and another masterful coaching job by Haley, thwarted by a shit QB.

Anyway, my point is, I wouldn't back down from you.

Not afraid of anyone, really.

Not a soul on this board expected you to SAY anything less.....

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by burt

Actually, all this thread, he has been all self righteous, and pseudo intellectual...but then, in the end, has to "lower" himself to the masses level and curse. I have nothing against cursing....just funny that this, self proclaimed intellectual, self righteous, prick had to lower himself to it!

fair enough.


im a cusser

[burt]

Originally Posted by Driving Wheel

Except mr. burt probably doesn't have a 'record collection'; he's got mp3s on his ipod, like a 7th grade girl...

ALMOST right....finally! Only its 3000 songs on a brick like first generation Zune!

[burt]

Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

fair enough.


im a cusser

But NOT a self righteous prick!

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by burt

Actually, all this thread, he has been all self righteous, and pseudo intellectual...but then, in the end, has to "lower" himself to the masses level and curse. I have nothing against cursing....just funny that this, self proclaimed intellectual, self righteous, prick had to lower himself to it!

it's all been straightforward and logical to me.

Funny thing about perceptions...

[BIG_DADDY]

Originally Posted by Driving Wheel

I got shit to do anyway.



Touché, Mr. Sauto...

That just may be the funniest line in the entire thread, rep.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by burt

ALMOST right....finally! Only its 3000 songs on a brick like first generation Zune!

those 1stgen Zunes were tits...

[burt]

Originally Posted by Driving Wheel

it's all been straightforward and logical to me.

Funny thing about perceptions...

Some are correct?

[ARROW2]

More Aguilera please.....Come on Wheelie, don't tell me that shit wasn't erotic....

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by burt

But NOT a self righteous prick!

true true

[ARROW2]

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Tell me you wouldn't hit it.....

[memyselfI]

Originally Posted by burt

ALMOST right....finally! Only its 3000 songs on a brick like first generation Zune!

My 20 year old son LOVES his first generation Zune. I've tried to get him to try other players or his phone. Nope.

[burt]

Originally Posted by memyselfI

My 20 year old son LOVES his first generation Zune. I've tried to get him to try other players or his phone. Nope.

A little bulky @ the gym......

[38yrsfan]

I'm Spartacus!