http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/12/01/report-kansas-city-chiefs-player-umaine-graduate-kills-girlfriend-self/
( Poor decision to play the game in my opinion - how can the Coach and GM who witnessed the shooting , let alone the KC players , play a football game on Sunday ?
( Poor decision to play the game in my opinion - how can the Coach and GM who witnessed the shooting , let alone the KC players , play a football game on Sunday ?
Kansas City Chiefs Player, UMaine Graduate Kills Girlfriend, Self
December 1, 2012 12:56 PM
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (CBS/AP) — A 25-year-old Kansas City Chiefs player fatally shot his girlfriend early Saturday, then drove to Arrowhead Stadium, where the Chiefs play, and committed suicide in front of his coach and general manager, police said.
Police spokesman Darin Snapp said the player killed his girlfriend and then went to the team practice facility, where he shot himself.
Several reports identified the player as LB Jovan Belcher, including a report by CBSSports.com’s Jason La Canfora.
Before turning the gun on himself, Belcher thanked Chiefs general manager Scott Pioli and Romeo Crennel for all they had done for him, Snapp said.
Pioli and Crennel are both former New England Patriots’ staffers.
Belcher, 25, was a football standout at the University of Maine, where he graduated from in 2008.
Snapp described the girlfriend as in her early 20s and that she and Belcher had a child together. He said the woman’s mother told police they had recently been arguing.
Authorities received a call Saturday morning from a woman who said her daughter had been shot multiple times at a residence about five miles away from the Arrowhead complex.
“When we arrived, a lady informed us that her daughter had been shot multiple times by her boyfriend, by the daughter’s boyfriend,” Snapp said. “She identified him as a Chiefs player.”
Snapp said a call was then received from the Chiefs’ facility.
“The description matched the suspect description from that other address. We kind of knew what we were dealing with,” he said. The player was “holding a gun to his head” as he stood in front of the front doors of the practice facility.
“And there were Pioli and Crennel and another coach or employee was standing outside and appeared to be talking to him. It appeared they were talking to the suspect,” Snapp said. “The suspect began to walk in the opposite direction of the coaches and the officers and that’s when they heard the gunshot. It appears he took his own life.”
The coaches told police they never felt in any danger, Snapp said.
“They said the player was actually thanking them for everything they’d done for him,” he said. “They were just talking to him and he was thanking them and everything. That’s when he walked away and shot himself.”
Arrowhead Stadium was on lockdown for a short time after the shooting.
“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.”
Kansas City is scheduled to host the Carolina Panthers on Sunday. The league has informed the Panthers to travel as scheduled because the game is going on as scheduled.
The season has been a massive disappointment for the Chiefs, who were expected to contend for the AFC West title.
They’re just 1-10 and mired in an eight-game losing streak that has been marked by devastating injuries and fan upheaval, with constant calls the past few weeks for Pioli and Crennel to be fired. Things have been so bad this season that Crennel fired himself as defensive coordinator.
The Chiefs have been ravaged by injuries, led the league in turnovers, can’t settle on a quarterback and are dealing with a full-fledged fan rebellion. The Twitter account for a fan group known as “Save Our Chiefs” recently surpassed 80,000 followers, about 17,000 more than the announced crowd at a recent game.
Cops: Chiefs player kills woman, self
WYO. POLICE: 2 SLAIN BEFORE KILLER TAKES OWN LIFE
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CASPER, Wyo. (AP) -- The first victim was found in the gutter of a quiet residential street, just as the killer was shedding blood again on the campus of a nearby community college.
Wielding some kind of sharp-edged weapon, he killed a community college instructor before taking his own life in front of a classroom of students.
Police wouldn't speculate on a motive for the murder-suicide and said little about how it all developed Friday at Casper College and in a neighborhood about two miles away. They hinted, however, that the three knew each another.
Casper Police Chief Chris Walsh said an "edged weapon" was used in at least one of the killings. He didn't say more about what type of weapon it was and whether the killer used the same weapon in all of the deaths.
He said he didn't know how many students were in the class or what the topic was. The attacker wasn't believed to be a Casper College student but it appeared he knew the victims, he said.
No names were released.
"We're locating next of kin and working on notification absolutely as fast as we can," Walsh said.
The campus was locked down and class called off for the day. Later, after the lockdown, students who lived on campus trickled back to their dorm rooms.
The violence came as a shock to this typically peaceful prairie city of about 56,000 in east-central Wyoming.
"It was a little bit of a wake-up call," said freshman Nathan Hansen, of Glenrock, a town of 2,500 about 30 miles east of Casper. "It was kind of odd hearing news of that happening here."
Authorities said they didn't believe there was any further threat to the community.
All students and staff were evacuated from the classroom building where the attack occurred just before 9 a.m. MST.
The college sent out a campus-wide alert via text message and email within two minutes of receiving word of the attack at 9:06 a.m., school spokesman Rich Fujita said. The lockdown ended at about 11 a.m. after school officials received word that police were no longer searching for a suspect, Fujita said.
There are fewer classes on Fridays than any other day of the week at Casper College, so only between 1,500 and 2,000 of the college's 5,000 students were there, he added.
"It is particularly painful because of our size," Fujita said of the small, tight-knit campus.
Pearson Morgan, a freshman, was in a math class on the first floor of the science building when his instructor relayed the news in a state of shock.
"My teacher was just so sick, he said, `You can just leave,'" Morgan said.
Morgan walked outside his classroom to find a female student crying. He then turned to see two or three officers with assault rifles bounding up the stairs. Then, all the classrooms emptied and a crush of students carried him outside, but nobody panicked, Morgan said.
"There was a large group of students behind me," he said. "There was a lot of confusion."
Political science instructor Chris Henrichsen said he was showing the film "Frost/Nixon" to his Wyoming and U.S. government class when he stepped into the hall and was told a homicide had occurred on campus.
Moments later his students started getting messages about the campus lockdown on their phones.
"We locked the door and waited for further instruction," Henrichsen said.
About two miles away, Dave Larsen said he was headed to the gym when he drove past a body in a gutter with two people standing over it, one talking on a cellphone.
Larsen lives about a block from the location of the body, a well-kept middle-class neighborhood of mostly single-story houses.
Walsh said that within minutes of the initial call, there was another report of a traumatic injury about two miles southwest of campus.
The college planned a candlelight vigil and memorial service on Tuesday.
Casper College opened in 1945 as the state's first junior college and moved to its current site 10 years later. Wyoming has only one four-year university, the University of Wyoming in Laramie, which serves more than 13,000 students.
Casper is Wyoming's second-largest city. Wyoming residents refer to it as the "Oil City" because it's a hub for the state's oil industry.
NYC couple dead in apparent murder-suicide
NEW YORK - Police say a husband and wife have been found dead in an apparent murder-suicide in their Brooklyn home.
The New York Police Department said Elsie and Peter Jones' bodies were discovered around 11:30 a.m. Friday in their home on St. Jude Place, in the Canarsie neighborhood. Each had been shot in the head.
Investigators believe the 53-year-old husband killed his 39-year-old wife and then himself.
The Daily News reports that he drove a commuter van, while she worked at the pharmaceutical company Pfizer for 17 years.
Friends and relatives tell the newspaper the two had been married since 1999 and have an 8-year-old son, but their union had soured.
The wife's sister, Rachelle Thevenin, says Elsie Jones was trying to get a divorce
Coroner identifies two men in murder-suicide
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Published: 11/26 11:34 am
Updated: 11/26 11:37 am
More details are unraveling following Wednesday's murder-suicide. We are hearing from some of the victim's family as well as some who knew the shooter. police believe the woman's estranged husband shot her boyfriend and then turned the gun on himself. News 3's Christine Kim has the story.
LAS VEGAS (Las Vegas Sun) -- Two men who died Wednesday in what police termed a murder-suicide have been identified as Anthony Rafael Garcia, 22, and William Joseph Pearce Jr., 25, both of Las Vegas, the Clark County Coroner’s Office said.
Pearce was shot multiple times in the head and chest, and Garcia died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, the coroner’s office determined.
Metro Police received reports of the shooting about 12:10 p.m. Wednesday from a woman who was at home with her three children and Pearce.
The woman told 911 dispatchers that her estranged husband, Garcia, had kicked in her front door and was armed with a gun. The woman gathered her children and fled, police said.
Metro SWAT officers arrived at the home in the 2000 block of Sunland Avenue, near West Rancho Boulevard and Alta Drive, and found both Garcia and Pearce shot to death, authorities said.
Coroner’s officials determined Pearce’s cause of death to be homicide and Garcia’s suicide.
LAS VEGAS (Las Vegas Sun) -- Two men who died Wednesday in what police termed a murder-suicide have been identified as Anthony Rafael Garcia, 22, and William Joseph Pearce Jr., 25, both of Las Vegas, the Clark County Coroner’s Office said.
Pearce was shot multiple times in the head and chest, and Garcia died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, the coroner’s office determined.
Metro Police received reports of the shooting about 12:10 p.m. Wednesday from a woman who was at home with her three children and Pearce.
The woman told 911 dispatchers that her estranged husband, Garcia, had kicked in her front door and was armed with a gun. The woman gathered her children and fled, police said.
Metro SWAT officers arrived at the home in the 2000 block of Sunland Avenue, near West Rancho Boulevard and Alta Drive, and found both Garcia and Pearce shot to death, authorities said.
Coroner’s officials determined Pearce’s cause of death to be homicide and Garcia’s suicide.
3 killed in double-murder, suicide at senior center
Scene at Golden West Towers in Torrance, California where a shooting involving a reported murder-suicide happened on Nov. 20, 2012. / KCAL
TORRANCE, CALIF.Three people have died in what appears to be a double murder-suicide at a senior citizens' high-rise in Torrance, police said.
A man in his 80s is believed to have fatally shot two women before turning the gun on himself in the lobby of the Golden West Tower apartments, according to Sgt. Robert Watt.
The shooting occurred shortly after noon Tuesday.
Watt says the victims haven't been identified and the motive is unknown. Police said they are investigating the relationship between the shooter and an unidentified woman.
"Still sketchy as to what this relationship was, was there a relationship? We don't know that yet," Watt said, according to CBS Los Angeles affiliate KCAL-TV.
Residents and staff from the senior center told NBC4 that the shooter had been behaving erratically, and many of them were seeking to have him kicked out of the complex.
"People knew that he was a little bit off," Golden Tower employee Alex Galindo told the TV station. "People were warned but nobody did anything, so I know there's going to be blood on a lot of people's hands. That's all I can say at this point."
Witnesses are being interviewed, and police are trying to obtain surveillance footage, Watt said.
According to the city of Torrance's website, Golden West Towers is a 180-unit, privately owned and operated facility. The low- and moderate-income housing is for seniors who can live independently.
In a shooting last month, investigators suspect 45-year-old Colin McGrattan shot and killed his ex-wife and her two nieces at O'Connor Woods Senior Living center in Stockton, before killing himself.
In 2010, 77-year-old Arthur Baar shot and killed his wife Caryl, 72, before turning the gun on himself in Laguna Woods, the south Orange County retirement community formerly known as Leisure World.
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