The household of late Dallas Cowboys lineman Marshawn Kneeland is standing up for the NFL star’s honor within the wake of his sudden dying.
“There’s been social media rubbish about medication, however I can let you know Marshawn hated medication, completely hated them,” Marshawn’s uncle, Preston Kneeland, informed the Every day Mail in a narrative printed on Tuesday, November 11.
Preston continued, “He by no means smoked, he by no means touched alcohol and he disliked prescription medication. He would at all times attempt to discover a pure technique to deal with issues.”
Marshawn died on Thursday, November 6, following a police chase with authorities. His physique was discovered within the neighborhood of his crashed car on the Dallas Parkway after an obvious suicide. He was 24 years outdated.
An official reason behind dying has not been launched.
Jasmine Kneeland, a cousin of Marshawn’s, positioned the duty for the Cowboys participant’s dying on regulation enforcement.
“I really assume they killed him, I really do,” Jasmine, 33, informed the Every day Mail in a narrative printed on Saturday, November 8.
Jasmine continued, “Marshawn is just not a violent individual. He isn’t a scorching head. One thing right here is simply not proper. One thing made him actually scared and he ran. That is nothing like him in any respect. He loves his household. He’s like an enormous child. He likes making TikTok movies of the little ones in our household, he likes being round them so much. He was beneficiant with them, at all times shopping for stuff.”
Us Weekly has reached out to the Frisco Police Division for remark.
“I imply, why would he do one thing like that swiftly?” Jasmine added. “That’s not the individual I do know. Our household is completely devastated.”
Within the hours earlier than his dying, Marshawn’s girlfriend, Catalina Mancera, expressed concern about her accomplice’s well-being and informed authorities he had “a historical past of psychological sickness.”
Audio obtained by Us on Monday, November 10, featured an acquaintance of Marshawn telling police that the NFL star was “not in a position to go to jail or to jail” shortly earlier than his physique was found.
Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones broke his silence about Marshawn’s dying on Tuesday, November 11.
“I feel all of us have unfettered emotions concerning the folks we love, folks we work with, and that is only a time whenever you acknowledge that there’s no solutions,” Jones, 83, stated on Dallas’ 105.3 The Fan. “It makes you wish to dwell life to the fullest. It makes you wish to search for the perfect in what now we have for one another. And ultimately make sense out of those occasions when it comes to what they will imply from serving to these which can be right here on earth proper now.”
Jones added, “All of these issues are very pure, come to thoughts, however his dying is such a nationwide consciousness factor that it takes on a few of that gentle after we take into consideration how we go ahead.”
The Cowboys return to motion for the primary time since Marshawn’s dying on Monday, November 17, once they journey to Las Vegas to play the Raiders throughout Monday Evening Soccer.
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