{"id":285527,"date":"2026-02-07T10:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T10:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/285527\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T10:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T10:34:07","slug":"darron-lee-ex-nfl-player-charged-with-murdering-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/285527\/","title":{"rendered":"Darron Lee: Ex-NFL player charged with murdering girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The name of the victim is being withheld until her next of kin has been informed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lee, a first-round draft pick for the New York Jets in 2016, last played in the NFL for the Buffalo Bills in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His four-year deal with the Jets was cut short by a year in 2019, when he left the franchise because of disciplinary problems and poor form.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lee was part of the Kansas City Chiefs&#8217; roster that won the Super Bowl in 2020, although he did not feature in the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He signed with the Las Vegas Raiders in June 2021 but did not play before his release two months later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lee was arrested in 2023 for assault and domestic violence. The arrest report said he pushed a woman &#8220;against the wall, throwing her to the floor and striking her face and head eight to nine times with his closed fists&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The name of the victim is being withheld until her next of kin has been informed. Lee, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-285527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}