{"id":38682,"date":"2025-11-06T21:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T21:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/38682\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T21:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T21:31:11","slug":"marshawn-kneeland-sent-goodbye-text-message-before-his-death-plano-police-dispatch-audio-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/38682\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshawn Kneeland sent goodbye text message before his death, Plano police dispatch audio reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas Cowboys<\/a> defensive end Marshawn Kneeland<\/a> sent a goodbye message to a group text before dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound overnight Wednesday, according to dispatch audio obtained by CBS News Texas.<\/p>\n

The audio obtained is from the Plano Police Department<\/a>‘s dispatch, which sends officers to calls and relays details to them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At around 11:40 p.m. Wednesday, officers went to a Plano apartment associated with Kneeland after someone called to report the concerning text message.<\/p>\n

“We’re getting a call from a friend of the resident, they just received a text from him, a group text, from him saying goodbye. They are concerned for his welfare,” the dispatcher said.<\/p>\n

Officers did not make contact with anyone in the apartment.<\/p>\n

Two visits to Kneeland’s Plano apartment<\/p>\n

That was the second time Plano officers stopped by the apartment Wednesday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At 11 p.m., Plano PD received a request from Frisco PD to help find the driver of a vehicle that had crashed on the Dallas Parkway near Warren Parkway. The vehicle, tied to the same Plano apartment, was involved in a high-speed chase with DPS troopers but the driver was missing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Frisco PD said Kneeland was the driver. After a search of the nearby area, officers found Kneeland dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at 1:31 a.m.<\/p>\n

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