{"id":39406,"date":"2025-11-07T09:29:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T09:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/39406\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T09:29:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T09:29:16","slug":"cowboys-marshawn-kneeland-texted-goodbye-crashed-then-took-own-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/39406\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys\u2019 Marshawn Kneeland Texted Goodbye, Crashed, Then Took Own Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Frisco Police Department and the Texas Department of Public Safety have released more details about the death of Dallas Cowboys defensive end Marshawn Kneeland on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As previously <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/cowboys-confirm-death-marshawn-kneeland-163507338.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:reported;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> by The Dallas Express, both the Cowboys and Kneeland\u2019s agent have confirmed the passing of the second-year defensive lineman, with details now emerging about the events that took place before his death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Frisco Police Department released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friscotexas.gov\/CivicAlerts.aspx?aid=2531\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:statement,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">statement,<\/a>\u00a0writing that Kneeland died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after an \u201coutside agency vehicle pursuit that led to a multi-agency search in Frisco.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The initial incident began on November 5, around 10:33 p.m., when Frisco police officers were called to assist the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) in locating a vehicle that had eluded DPS troopers during a high-speed pursuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Texas DPS also <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NickHarrisFWST\/status\/1986468415482036494?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:released;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">released<\/a> a statement about the incident, writing that troopers \u201cattempted to stop a vehicle for a traffic violation on the northbound lanes of the Dallas North Tollway near Keller Springs Blvd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe driver refused to stop, resulting in a pursuit with DPS Troopers. However, DPS Troopers lost sight of the vehicle, and the pursuit was terminated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Texas DPS added that the vehicle was later found abandoned after being involved in a crash in the southbound lanes of Dallas Parkway near Warren Parkway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Frisco PD wrote in the statement that Kneeland had expressed suicidal ideations before the incident and was later found at 1:31 a.m. with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, though an official cause of death has not been established at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Meanwhile, TMZ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/11\/06\/marshawn-kneeland-dispatch-audio-texted-goodbye\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:obtained;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">obtained<\/a> police dispatch audio connected to the incident, in which Kneeland\u2019s girlfriend can be heard telling a dispatcher that he would \u201cend it all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cShe\u2019s saying he is armed and has a history of mental illness. And her quote was, \u2018He will end it all,\u2019\u201d said the dispatcher in the audio, per TMZ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This audio also states that the NFL called the Plano Police Department regarding an unnamed Cowboys player who was \u201ctexting his family goodbye\u201d around the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Further details about the death have not been released at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Frisco Police Department and the Texas Department of Public Safety have released more details about the death&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,113,104,103,20488,23916,23790,24303,6877,2785,14782,24302],"class_list":["post-39406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-defensive-lineman","tag-frisco-police-department","tag-marshawn-kneeland","tag-self-inflicted-gunshot-wound","tag-texas-department-of-public-safety","tag-texas-dps","tag-the-dallas-express","tag-the-frisco-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}