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[R.I.P.] Kansas City Chiefs Player, UMaine Graduate Kills Girlfriend, Self

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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

Kansas City Chiefs Player, UMaine Graduate Kills Girlfriend, Self « CBS Boston


Don't know what's going on as of late, several suicides over the past couple of years, including Junior Seau of the Chargers....As a lover of football, I hope that it is not ultimately linked to repeated head hits causing this, I'd hate to see the sport go....


Sympathies to KC fans, and the family.
 
Why is it every time one of these assholes decides to kill himself, he has to murder his wife/girlfriend/kids first? I have no sympathy for him - he was obviously a selfish, greedy bastard who took the life of an innocent person.
 
I wish for sympathy towards the innocent, especially the family of the woman that was murdered. However, this man as an individual deserves no honor or sympathy for his actions.
 
I wish for sympathy towards the innocent, especially the family of the woman that was murdered. However, this man as an individual deserves no honor or sympathy for his actions.


Wow, pretty cold guys...The man obviously had some mental issues, and not only do BOTH of the families deserve some sympathy, but also for the man himself that felt this was his only option....
 
Wow, pretty cold guys...The man obviously had some mental issues, and not only do BOTH of the families deserve some sympathy, but also for the man himself that felt this was his only option....

I have a hard time feeling sorry for someone that murdered another person and then killed themselves. I can sympathize with suicidal individuals, but murder deserves no sympathy.
 
Why is it every time one of these assholes decides to kill himself, he has to murder his wife/girlfriend/kids first? I have no sympathy for him - he was obviously a selfish, greedy bastard who took the life of an innocent person.

Actually that's not obvious. "Selfish, greedy bastard" might not come anywhere close to really describing what was going on his mind. I think that's just your emotional reaction to the heinous nature of what he ended up doing.
 
I saw this story about a dozen times on ESPN before I learned that he is from the same town I live in.

Weird stuff.
 
Actually that's not obvious. "Selfish, greedy bastard" might not come anywhere close to really describing what was going on his mind. I think that's just your emotional reaction to the heinous nature of what he ended up doing.

You guys can argue semantics all day long but a man who kills his girlfriend and infant son just isn't that great of a guy.
 
I have a hard time feeling sorry for someone that murdered another person and then killed themselves. I can sympathize with suicidal individuals, but murder deserves no sympathy.


Not saying it does, but on the surface it looks like the actions of a severely depressed individual that was not under treatment that he needed to be obviously....If in the end he turns out to have been just another jack ass of a man, then fine, I'll agree with you...But on the surface I think there is more to it...
 
You guys can argue semantics all day long but a man who kills his girlfriend and infant son just isn't that great of a guy.

I'm not claiming he was a great guy. Just saying it is not in fact "obvious" to any of us that "selfish, greedy" describes or explains why he did this. It's heinous, but we have no idea the real nature of this guy's ****ed-up-ness.
 
If he took the time to thank the coaches for all they had done to help him and they never felt in danger, this does not sound like a crime of passion.
 
Not saying it does, but on the surface it looks like the actions of a severely depressed individual that was not under treatment that he needed to be obviously....If in the end he turns out to have been just another jack ass of a man, then fine, I'll agree with you...But on the surface I think there is more to it...

I agree that there is more to it.

I think by his actions of going to the stadium and thanking his coach and general manager suggest this guy had some troubles that brought him to this ugly finale. I just know from a personal account in which my grandfather and shot and killed a sheriff that first reaction is not always accurate. BTW my grandfather got acquitted in court as the sheriff was a SOB.
 
I have a hard time feeling sorry for someone that murdered another person and then killed themselves. I can sympathize with suicidal individuals, but murder deserves no sympathy.

Agreed.
 
Wow, pretty cold guys...The man obviously had some mental issues, and not only do BOTH of the families deserve some sympathy, but also for the man himself that felt this was his only option....

You mean the guy who played a game for a living and made huge amounts of money for doing so felt sad? Oh give me a break. I have the same to say about this that i did about kurt nobrain wacking himself. If you cannot find happiness with millions of dollars and a job that involves playing then you are are doing it wrong. If you want to quit the game with everything going for you then do it and stop taking out other people. Just don't tell me i have to care or give sympathy to the man and the screw ups who raised such a defective person.
 
Not saying it does, but on the surface it looks like the actions of a severely depressed individual that was not under treatment that he needed to be obviously....If in the end he turns out to have been just another jack ass of a man, then fine, I'll agree with you...But on the surface I think there is more to it...

What more do you want aside from the guy was broken? Just because you are broken does not give you the right to start taking out people who are OK. You make millions in a sport where every drug or substance available to mankind is available to you. You want us to feel sad because someone didn't force it down his throat? There comes a certain point where you just cannot do so much for that sort of person and they either get help or go kill themselves.
 
I'm not claiming he was a great guy. Just saying it is not in fact "obvious" to any of us that "selfish, greedy" describes or explains why he did this. It's heinous, but we have no idea the real nature of this guy's ****ed-up-ness.

Selfish because suicide is the ultimate act of selfishness. Nothing and no-one matters to the suicide more than their own inner pain. To take others' lives in the process is also selfish in the implicit assumption that for them to live on without you is worse than dying. That's greedy too. You can't have them, so nobody else can either.
 
You mean the guy who played a game for a living and made huge amounts of money for doing so felt sad? Oh give me a break. I have the same to say about this that i did about kurt nobrain wacking himself. If you cannot find happiness with millions of dollars and a job that involves playing then you are are doing it wrong. If you want to quit the game with everything going for you then do it and stop taking out other people. Just don't tell me i have to care or give sympathy to the man and the screw ups who raised such a defective person.


You really have zero understanding of mental illness do you, and to be so brash, and abrasive in attacking not only the victims of this tragedy, but the victim's parents as well? That's just deplorable....Do me a favor, and don't respond to my postings anymore, you have nothing to offer but vitriol, and hatred. Go away.
 
Selfish because suicide is the ultimate act of selfishness. Nothing and no-one matters to the suicide more than their own inner pain. To take others' lives in the process is also selfish in the implicit assumption that for them to live on without you is worse than dying. That's greedy too. You can't have them, so nobody else can either.


Someone suffering from severe depression, possibly hallucinations auditory, or visual don't think in terms of selfish v. rational behavior. These are pitfalls to an uneducated opinion of suicide that we are only now starting to understand.
 
Don't know what's going on as of late, several suicides over the past couple of years, including Junior Seau of the Chargers....As a lover of football, I hope that it is not ultimately linked to repeated head hits causing this, I'd hate to see the sport go....

They had repeated head hits before the NFL developed its concussion protocol. In fact, they had more because there were more legal hits and the helmets weren't as good as they are today. We also had lots of guns. Life goes on for most of us, just as it always has. So will the NFL.
 
They had repeated head hits before the NFL developed its concussion protocol. In fact, they had more because there were more legal hits and the helmets weren't as good as they are today.


Something to look at for sure, but this player was I think only 4 years into his career. I think at this point just knee jerking a response that it happened because of helmet to helmet contact, and the long term effects of concussions is only a way to avoid the bigger discussion of mental illness in our society, and how little we pay attention to it.

We also had lots of guns.

So? The availability of gun ownership in our society has nothing to do with the result in that, if it weren't a gun it may have been a knife, or a bat, or a tire iron....Should we ban bats?

Life goes on for most of us, just as it always has. So will the NFL.

So, a big "eh, so what?" huh? We should just mark it off as a happenstance of life, and not even address this country's dismal record of attention to mental health?
 
Don't know what's going on as of late, several suicides over the past couple of years, including Junior Seau of the Chargers....As a lover of football, I hope that it is not ultimately linked to repeated head hits causing this, I'd hate to see the sport go....


Sympathies to KC fans, and the family.
The repeated head hits is a good thing to bring up. I'm happy that this issue is being resolved--especially in High School football.
 
Someone suffering from severe depression, possibly hallucinations auditory, or visual don't think in terms of selfish v. rational behavior. These are pitfalls to an uneducated opinion of suicide that we are only now starting to understand.

My comment is entirely informed on the topic. What is your expertise?
Someone in severe depression is physically and mentally slowed to the point that they lack the volition if not the motivation to kill themselves. People in severe depression, treated with electroplexy are notoriously at most at risk of suicide around the third or fourth treatment, when their mood is still low, but they are more alert, aware and oriented, so that they are capable of acting on their thoughts.
Those who behave in a selfish way don't always believe they are doing so. Given the circumstances of this case, having murdered someone, the realisation that his career, if not his life, was essentially finished, moved him to kill himself to avoid those consequences of what he'd done.
 
Wow, pretty cold guys...The man obviously had some mental issues, and not only do BOTH of the families deserve some sympathy, but also for the man himself that felt this was his only option....

Everybody who murders an innocent person and then kills himself has 'mental issues'. I don't give a crap. I care about the innocent and wouldn't waste one second grieving for this selfish bastard.
 
Actually that's not obvious. "Selfish, greedy bastard" might not come anywhere close to really describing what was going on his mind. I think that's just your emotional reaction to the heinous nature of what he ended up doing.

Nothing 'emotional' about it. But thanks for the psychoanalysis.
 
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