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after a vehicle chase dallas The Cowboys’ Marshon Neyland reached speeds of up to 160 mph (258 kph), a frantic pursuit. nfl players involved texas State troopers fired pepper balls into drainage tunnels and officers used K-9 dogs and a drone before the man was found dead by suicide, body and dash cam video show.
Niland, 24, was found dead on the morning of November 6, hours after being pursued by officers attempting a traffic stop in suburban Dallas from what police said was an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
At first, officers did not know that the driver they were pursuing on the evening of November 5 was Kneeland, initially thinking the car was stolen. After the driver abandoned the vehicle after the crash, officers discovered during their hours-long search that the suspect was Kneeland. His family and friends were afraid he would hurt himself as he sent them goodbye messages. They had reached out to the authorities to trace him.
A Texas Department of Public Safety, or DPS, trooper began pursuing Neeland, who was driving a Dodge Charger northbound on the Dallas North Tollway, at 10:33 p.m. on Nov. 5, according to a crime report released by the agency through an open records request on Friday.
The trooper said Neyland’s vehicle reached speeds of more than 145 mph (233 kph), but other troopers in body camera footage released by DPS said they believed the pursuit reached speeds of up to 160 mph (258 kph).
The trooper’s Charger was lost, but was later found around 10:42 p.m., when it crashed into a Ford F-350 truck and ended up in a grassy area near the tollway in Frisco, a suburb of Dallas. The site is near an office park area with office buildings, businesses and apartments.
According to body camera footage, an unidentified woman whose truck collided with Neyland’s Charger was distraught as she stood near her damaged vehicle.
“I saw him in my rearview mirror coming at me so fast. I thought, oh my God, he’s not stopping, and then he hit me,” she told a trooper in the footage released Friday.
Troopers said the Charger had been abandoned, but they found an empty holster inside, leading them to believe the driver was armed.
At this point in the search, troopers and officers did not know who the suspect was, initially believing the vehicle may have been stolen.
During a search of the office park area, a trooper stopped a man driving a car who indicated he had seen the suspect fleeing through a field.
“Take me back to where you saw him,” the cop told the driver before jumping into the man’s vehicle. But the suspect was no longer in the field.
At approximately 11:20 p.m., DPS troopers and Frisco Police Department officers were searching for Neeland in a nearby wooded area and a series of drainage tunnels under the sidewalk.
“Frisco K-9. If you’re in this tunnel, I’m going to send my dog over here. He’s going to bite you. This is your last chance,” the Frisco officer said.
Authorities later fired pepper balls into the tunnels and sent a drone into them, but Niland was not found inside.
By about 1 a.m. on November 6, authorities knew that the driver of the Charger was Kneeland and they briefly detained but did not charge his girlfriend, Catalina Mancera. She drove to the scene of the search but did not initially tell authorities about her connection to Kneeland.
“The girlfriend has her place. But she’s not giving it to us…” She says, ‘He’s going to kill himself. A Frisco police officer said, “I can’t tell you where he is.” Authorities later said Mancera worked with authorities to find Neeland.
In other footage, law enforcement officers searching an area discussed that he was an NFL player and that he was sending goodbye messages to family members.
The search ended after about 30 minutes. Kneeland’s body was located inside a portable toilet.
in a post on FacebookMancera said Monday she still thinks Neyland will walk through her front door.
“My sweet boy is truly gone. The things I would do to do you one more time and tell you how much you mean to me. But now I have you to take care of me and wait for me on the other side. I will see you again,” Mancera wrote.
The Cowboys said a memorial fund has been started to assist Mancera, who is pregnant with the couple’s child.
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Editor’s Note – In the US, the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is available by calling or texting 988. An online chat is also available at 988lifeline.org.
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Associated Press writers Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City, Missouri, and Jamie Stengel in Dallas contributed to this report. Follow Juan A. Lozano: https://x.com/juanlozano70