The household of late Dallas Cowboys lineman Marshawn Kneeland is standing up for the NFL star's honor within the wake of his sudden demise.
“There's been social media rubbish about medicine, however I can let you know Marshawn hated medicine, completely hated them,” Marshawn's uncle, Preston Kneeland, instructed the Daily 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 approach 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 automobile on the Dallas Parkway after an obvious suicide. He was 24 years previous.
An official reason for demise has not been launched.
Jasmine Kneeland, a cousin of Marshawn's, positioned the accountability for the Cowboys participant's demise on legislation enforcement.
“I actually assume they killed him, I actually do,” Jasmine, 33, instructed the Each day Mail in a narrative printed on Saturday, November 8.
Jasmine continued, “Marshawn will not be a violent particular person. He's not a sizzling 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 a giant child. He likes making TikTok movies of the little ones in our household, he likes being round them rather a lot. 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 rapidly?” Jasmine added. “That's not the particular person I do know. Our household is totally devastated.”
Within the hours earlier than his demise, Marshawn's girlfriend, Catalina Mancera, expressed concern about her companion's well-being and instructed 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 capable of go to jail or to jail” shortly earlier than his physique was found.
Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones broke his silence about Marshawn's demise on Tuesday, November 11.
“I feel all of us have unfettered emotions in regards to the folks we love, folks we work with, and that is only a time once 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 easiest in what we've for one another. And ultimately make sense out of those instances by way of what they'll imply from serving to these which are right here on earth proper now.”
Jones added, “All of these issues are very pure, come to thoughts, however his demise is such a nationwide consciousness factor that it takes on a few of that mild after we take into consideration how we go ahead.”
The Cowboys return to motion for the primary time since Marshawn's demise on Monday, November 17, after they journey to Las Vegas to play the Raiders throughout Monday Night time Soccer.
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