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Video Released of Police Finding Kansas City Chiefs Jovan Belcher Asleep in Car Just Hours Before Murder-Suicide

Dec. 8, 2012 11:03am Christopher Santarelli

Video Released of Police Finding Jovan Belcher Asleep in Car Hours Before Murder Suicide

KANSAS CITY, MO – NOVEMBER 25: Inside linebacker Jovan Belcher #59 of the Kansas City Chiefs wathces from the sideliens during his final game against the Denver Broncos at Arrowhead Stadium on November 25, 2012 in Kansas City, Missouri. (photo credit: Getty Images)

(AP) — Police released video Friday night that shows officers finding Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher asleep in his car just hours before he killed his girlfriend and later shot himself.

The recording was among two dashboard videos made available by police nearly a week after the murder-suicide. The second video shows an officer responding to Arrowhead Stadium, where Belcher shot himself in front of team officials shortly after killing Kasandra Perkins at their home on Dec. 1.

The first video shows officers finding Belcher asleep in his parked car around 3 a.m. that day outside an apartment complex. Officers talk to him, and he identifies himself as a Chiefs player.

Police said he was cooperative and told officers he was there to visit a woman he described as his girlfriend but that she wasn’t home. The video shows Belcher later stepping out of his car and thanking officers, saying he’s going to go upstairs.

Police have said a woman allowed Belcher into the building, though she wasn’t identified.

The second video begins around 8 a.m. from the dashboard of a patrol car speeding to the stadium. Officers can be heard over the police radio confirming there had been a shooting connected to Belcher, and later that there was an armed suspect at the stadium.

The video shows the police vehicle arriving at a stadium parking lot and the officer stepping out, asking over his radio that other responding officers cut off their sirens, which can be heard in the distance.

“I’ve got a sighting from afar, it looks like they’re in a negotiation … I need a rifle asap,” the officer says as he walks toward the parking lot. “I’m at the south side. I’m at the main entrance, trying to sneak up on foot.”

The video cuts off seconds later.

Police have said officers were called to Belcher’s home around 7:50 a.m., after he fatally shot Perkins, whose body was found on the floor of the master bathroom with multiple gunshot wounds. Belcher and Perkins had a 3-month-old daughter, Zoey.

Belcher then drove about five miles to the stadium, where he was met by general manager Scott Pioli and coach Romeo Crennel, whom Belcher thanked for all they had done for him. When police arrived at the stadium, Belcher moved behind a vehicle, out of clear view of officers, knelt down and shot himself once in the head, according to police spokesman Darin Snapp.

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MormonPiper
Posted on December 9, 2012 at 2:17am
If he was anything but a foolball zero, and a minority, he would have been in the pokey long ago. I

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scrudge
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 7:58pm
Ah Yes…. nothing new here… another n f l looser….

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TRILO
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 6:31pm
I guess everyone will want to blame the officers for failing to take Belcher into custody when they found him asleep in his car.

No matter how one spins the story there is only one person, and one person only who is responsible for what happened – Jovan Belcher. End of story. Time to move on.

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1776freedomofspeech
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 1:32pm
The dude was a dirt bag, OK? He was a football player in the NFL. Guess what there are a lot of dirtbags in the NFL. Being a NFL player does not give you class, style and social grace, It allows you a chance to be great and that is it. He was a loser and losers commit suicide.

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zman173rd
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 1:09pm
If it had been an SUV the cr*p would be hittin the fan big time for a ban of gas guzzlers. I blame OBAMA cause, HE BUILT THE ROADS for this weazle to drive on to get to his family and the arena and YESSssss.. even to buy the handgun.

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- pdw
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 7:13pm
  This is what comes from promoting hatred to get re-elected.
  
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FaithfulFriend
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 1:03pm
So the officer responding from the stadium sees Belcher speaking with the coach and radios for a rifle?

Is the officer incapable of moving quickly towards the known murder suspect with his weapon drawn to protect the coach or any others near by? Seems not to me.

Protecting and Serving who exactly?

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TJexcite
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 12:39pm
Of all the buffoonery by some in the media on this tragedy the reports from a few years ago when Sean Taylor was shot there was not a call to ban guns because it was the bad guy who had the gun and they would not care for another law that they would ignore. Or when Plaxico Burress shot himself in a night club. No cries on why he needed a gun at a night club and to ban all guns from all NFL players. But now it was the gun that did this tragedy. Nothing better for some when you find out their soap box is made out of cheep cardboard and they fall on ones **** once the facts come out.

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- docfix
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 1:07pm
  @TJEXCITE – you’re wrong about Plaxico. After he shot himself, mayor Bloomberg created called for bans and new laws regarding gun ownership in NY City, they prosecuted Plaxico more fiercely than others and the guy spent a significant time in jail
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 1:35pm
  Ya there were outcries for gun control in both cases you mentioned.
  
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bemo234
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 12:05pm
If the price of gas was higher this zavage may not have been able to start his car, we need higher gas prices.

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- db321
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 12:45pm
  Why is all the attention paid to Belcher. It is that Tim Teabow that is the problem.
  
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- db321
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 1:07pm
  The Cops acted Stupidly by not profiling him and beating him in the head with a night stick and tossing him in jail. They could have save lives!
  
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shagstar
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 11:46am
there are more important issues than this drugged up,psycho drunk!
you know,,like,,Benghazi,,fast and furious,,Brian Terry and the Ft.Hood massacre…etc..etc..

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- horsehockey
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 2:26pm
  Obama loves Belcher ’cause he presented another distraction from the real issues that you mentioned.
  
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AR485
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 11:41am
It is obvious that if he didn’t have such easy access to a vehicle that this crime would have never happened. This should make the need for car control an obvious choice. Think of the thousands of people who would be alive today if it weren’t for cars. Who actually “needs” a car anyway. The founding fathers never said anything about one’s rights to own or even use a car.

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- ResistSocialism
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 11:51am
  I agree
  
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- bemo234
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 12:03pm
  If the price of gas was higher this savage may not have been able to start his car, we need higher gas prices.
  
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HOOT_OWL
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 11:34am
It makes you wonder had the Police never woke him up ,Jovan Belcher might have slept it off
and the outcome could have been totally different. Just a thought on 20/20 hind sight.

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 11:25am
Well…now I get it. The liberal-trash media will be saying that the police rousting a sleeping Belcher out of his car earlier caused him so much mental anguish that he shot his girl friend. Yeah…that’s it.

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