Athletes who have been shot during their active careers.
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Besides 49r Ricky Piersal (Sp?), who else can you think of?
I recall athletes being shot while hunting, being shot by themselves by accident and being shot during the commission of a crime.
A star football player for De LaSalle high school was shot and killed at a party in the 1990’s; I remember a New York Giants player shooting himself in his leg over 20 years ago and I remember a star high school or college basketball player from Chicago getting shot and killed over 20 years ago.
Who else do you remember?
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MLB - Lyman Bostock was shot and killed in the 70s.
While not shot, NBA player Paul Pierce was stabbed multiple times pretty severely in an attack at a Boston nightclub.
lucky for paul he wasnt in a barber shop
Ed Waitkus was shot by an obsessed fan - The Natural may have borrowed from his story.
Plaxico Burress accidentally shot himself.
Jim
jason pierre paul "shot" himself with a firework
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
Lyman Bostock?
Catfish Jim Hunter
https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/hunter-james
Roy Hobbs
Rocky Bleier - RB for the Steelers, was shot in Vietnam.
I just thought about Rocky right before I logged back on...
Pat Tillman
Although he left the NFL to join the army, I think he would have returned to the NFL after his tour of duty.
In 1932, Cubs shortstop Billy Jurges was shot by his girlfriend.
Plaxico Burress is the New York Giants player I referred to in my OP.
Monty Stratton. Hunting accident during his career. Came back to pitch with a prosthetic leg. Great movie with James Stewart.
Yeah, and served a couple years in jail for the incident. Not the smartest bulb.
McNair was a year out of the league.
""Former NFL star Steve McNair’s life came to a tragic end when he was murdered by one of his mistresses in 2009.
The acclaimed quarterback spent the majority of his football career playing for the Tennessee Titans, where he was named a Most Valuable Player, but only a year after retiring, his life was cut short. McNair was killed at the hands of his girlfriend Sahel “Jenni” Kazemi in a murder-suicide.
McNair, who had been married to his wife, Mechelle, since 1997, began an affair with Kazemi in early 2009. At the time, Kazemi was a 19-year-old waitress working at the local Dave and Buster’s restaurant where many Titans players frequented. Shortly after meeting, McNair and Kazemi started spending time together, going on trips around the country and even meeting each other’s family, according to The Tennessean.""
A couple of years ago some University of Virginia football players were shot.
Shawn Taylor
3 were killed by a guy that got cut from the team
Wisconsin 2-6 against the SEC since 2007
Wasnt a shooting but Tommy Pham was stabbed outside a strip club
Wisconsin 2-6 against the SEC since 2007
De LaSalle high school
the one on Michigan Ave Chicago ?
Dude played for the Chiefs. This was 2012.
"KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher fatally shot his girlfriend on Saturday, then drove to Arrowhead Stadium and committed suicide in front of his coach and general manager.
Authorities did not release a possible motive for the murder-suicide, though police said that Belcher and his girlfriend, 22-year-old Kasandra M. Perkins, had been arguing recently. The two of them have an infant child."
Depending how you spell the school theres been two. One was a graduation in KC but the football player that died was from the California one 20 years ago. He was getting some big offers and likely was going to go play for Oregon
Wisconsin 2-6 against the SEC since 2007
The De LaSalle high school located in the SF Bay Area.
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Richard Hidalgo was shot in the forearm in Venezuela in 2002.
Not sure if already mentioned . June 9,2019 David Ortiz ( BIG POPI ) shot in the Dominican Republic.