Comments on: HS Football Star Kills Himself During Traffic Stop

By: Big M

Big M — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:45:27 +0000

This does not make sense,,,,this kid did not kill himself,,,,first off if you actually read the report you will see that while being pursued after running a red light he got out of his truck. Everybody knows you don't get out of your vehicle especially if your a young black male,,,he was also known to be seeing a young lady that was white,,,,this is Mississippi,,,so many things in the actual report indicates something wrong with this entire situation. They need to bring in the FEDs to investigate this situation

By: C.J.

C.J. — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:59:02 +0000

"Forget layoffs and economic distress, this is about as depressing as you can possibly get."Way to put it in perspective. Appropriate.

By: NM

NM — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:46:51 +0000

See what you've started, Plaxico?

By: therudy2

therudy2 — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:02:30 +0000

jesus, is that bizarre. really hard to believe it was purposely self-inflicted. unless there's some extensive, ridiculous police cover-up he had a loaded shotgun in his hand. occams razor could lead you to believe he accidently killed himself in the commission of a crime, or one that was imminent. that seems the most logical. who knows?

but isn't difficult to accidentally shoot yourself using a firearm with a barrel that long?

still, the suicide angle doesn't add up.

By: mississippi

mississippi — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:00:34 +0000

Sad story. Something just doesn't seem right about it.

Lucedale is in Southeast MS.

By: texas

texas — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:31:18 +0000

It would be quite easy to kill yourself accidentally with a shotgun. It's a shotgun, for chissakes, not a .22. Whether it was loaded with shot or with a slug, it's pretty much a guaranteed fatality if you shoot yourself with it accidentally at close range anywhere in the torso or head. Your statement that a fatal hit is "a major leap of faith" is just ridiclous.

Equally ridiculous is your claim that possessing a shotgun somehow implies that the possessor knows how to use it. Complete and utter nonsense. There are people all over this country who owns firearms and yet don't know the first thing about firearms safety.

It's pretty easy for me to imagine that he shot himself accidentally while trying to move the shotgun out of sight (maybe under the seat) so the cop wouldn't see it.
Much harder to imagine is why he had it in the vehicle in the first place, and why it was loaded. But you are doing him wrong by jumping to the conclusion that this was intentional suicide. Maybe it will turn out to be just that, but you have nothing to base that on so far.

By: Dan Anderson

Dan Anderson — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:28:08 +0000

This is terrible. What could have possibly triggered this young kid to take his life like that? Even if he was hiding drugs in his car (and I'm not saying he did), that's not worth putting a gun to your head over.