American football player Marshawn Kneeland dies at 24

Marshawn Kneeland, a second-year player, had scored his archetypal vocation touchdown Monday.

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Marshawn Kneeland, a antiaircraft extremity for the American shot team, the Dallas Cowboys, has died astatine the property of 24, the National Football League franchise said.

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The Frisco constabulary section successful Texas said connected Thursday that Kneeland appeared to person taken his ain beingness aft helium was progressive successful a conveyance pursuit and a multi-agency hunt precocious connected Wednesday.

Police said Kneeland did not halt for Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers implicit a postulation usurpation connected Wednesday night.

They said officers from the Frisco constabulary section joined successful the pursuit of Kneeland’s car, which was recovered a small earlier 11pm section clip (05:00 GMT, Thursday) aft it had crashed connected southbound Dallas Parkway.

The driver, identified arsenic Kneeland, abandoned the car and walked distant from the scene. The Texas DPS said a trooper had tried to propulsion him implicit for an alleged postulation violation, and helium did not stop.

After instituting a hunt utilizing some K-9 and drone units, instrumentality enforcement recovered Kneeland dormant astatine 1:31am connected Thursday.

Frisco constabulary said they learned Kneeland had expressed suicidal thoughts pursuing a telephone to the exigency dispatch connected Wednesday night. The authoritative origin of decease volition beryllium determined by the Collin County aesculapian examiner.

The Cowboys announced the decease of Kneeland, a second-year player, connected Thursday.

“It is with utmost sadness that the Dallas Cowboys stock that Marshawn Kneeland tragically passed distant this morning,” the connection said.

“Marshawn was a beloved teammate and subordinate of our organization. Our thoughts and prayers regarding Marshawn are with his woman Catalina and his family.”

Kneeland scored his archetypal vocation touchdown Monday successful the Cowboys’ 27-17 nonaccomplishment to the Arizona Cardinals.

“I watched him combat his mode from a hopeful kid astatine Western Michigan with a imagination to being a respected nonrecreational for the Dallas Cowboys,” his agent, Jonathan Perzley, said successful a statement.

“Marshawn poured his bosom into each snap, practice, and each infinitesimal connected the field. To suffer idiosyncratic with his talent, tone and goodness is simply a symptom I tin hardly enactment into words. My bosom aches for his family, his teammates and everyone who loved him.”