{"id":46232,"date":"2025-11-12T08:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/46232\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T08:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:01:12","slug":"cowboys-marshawn-kneeland-sent-concerning-texts-prior-to-death-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/46232\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys\u2019 Marshawn Kneeland sent \u2018concerning\u2019 texts prior to death \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shortly before Dallas Cowboys defensive end<\/a> Marshawn Kneeland died by suicide<\/a>, the player said goodbye to friends and said he couldn\u2019t bear to do any time behind bars, police recordings revealed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys’ head of security, Cable Johnson, was put through to police in Plano asking for officers in that Dallas suburb to do a welfare check on the 24-year-old.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe sent out some group texts that are concerning, probably mental health,” Johnson told a police dispatcher. \u201cThe group text seemed to be saying goodbye and he made some statement about not being able to go to prison or to jail.\u201d <\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t clear what Kneeland could have been referencing about possible time behind bars.<\/p>\n

The dispatcher didn\u2019t ask Cable to elaborate and a Plano police spokesman couldn\u2019t be immediately reached for comment on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Johnson said he had already been in touch with top brass at the Plano Police Department, asking for a welfare check to Kneeland\u2019s apartment at 6000 Columbus Ave. <\/p>\n

\u201cI just was off the phone with (Plano Police) Chief (Ed) Drain so he\u2019s aware, and I sent him the text as well,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n

Kneeland was found dead in the early morning hours of Thursday last week with a self-inflicted gunshot wound after evading authorities, crashing a car and fleeing on foot, police said.<\/p>\n

Texas Department of Public Safety troopers attempted to stop his car for a traffic violation near Frisco on Wednesday night, launching the brief pursuit, police said.<\/p>\n

Kneeland was in his second season<\/a> with the Cowboys and had scored his first NFL touchdown days earlier, recovering a blocked punt in the end zone against the Arizona Cardinals on “Monday Night Football.”<\/p>\n

If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988, or go to 988lifeline.org<\/a>, to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. You can also call the network, previously known as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, at 800-273-8255<\/a>, or visit SpeakingOfSuicide.com\/resources<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Dallas Cowboys return to practice this week after the death of Marshawn Kneeland. NBC 5’s Larry Collins has the details.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shortly before Dallas Cowboys defensive end Marshawn Kneeland died by suicide, the player said goodbye to friends and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,113,104,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-46232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-cowboys","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46232","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=46232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}