MIAMI -- Former Pro Bowl center Barret Robbins, who was shot by a detective investigating a burglary call, was charged Wednesday with three counts of attempted felony murder. Posted on 01/19/2005 12:58:52 PM PST by holymoly
MIAMI -- Former Pro Bowl center Barret Robbins, who was shot by a detective investigating a burglary call, was charged Wednesday with three counts of attempted felony murder.
Miami Beach police found Robbins Saturday night inside an administrative office at a building housing a nightclub, gym and jewelry store.
Robbins also was charged with two counts of attempting to deprive an officer of his weapon, two counts of resisting an officer with violence and trespassing.
Police said Detective Mike Muley shot him during a struggle. Robbins was critically injured. Muley received hospital treatment for minor head injuries.
The former Oakland Raiders lineman was arrested in December in San Francisco for hitting a security guard at a nightclub. The Raiders cut him last July for testing positive for steroids.
He suffers from bipolar disorder and alcoholism.
off his meds again
A pix from happier days.
Sounds like he was off his meds and hitting the bottle. In a manic state, he might have felt invulnerable and thought nothing of just a cop or two.
I'm sure the NFL has wonderful resources that he could take advantage of were he to regain a semblance of his right mind.
Riders? SuperBowl? 2003? They haven't been near the SuperBowl is decades have they?
"He suffers from bipolar disorder and alcoholism"
geez...prayers to anyone in this man's path.
"geez...prayers to anyone in this man's path."
um...poster girl for PROOFREADING!
prayers *FOR* anyone in this man's path!
Can you say "CRACK"
The got their asses handed to them by the Bucs a couple of years ago in the SB.
In a phase of heightened mania, he would definitely not be deemed rational. He could mount a successful insanity defense given his mental history.
Whew. Say "Raiders center" and I immediately think of Jim Otto. Glad it's not him.
"Riders? SuperBowl? 2003? They haven't been near the SuperBowl is decades have they?"
They've never been to the Super Bowl. The "Riders", i.e., Saskatchewan Rough Riders, play in the CFL. They last won the Grey Cup in 1989, and last played in the title game in 1997.
Why was he there? Who did he try to murder? This story is deficient.
This Sunday, or Monday, on ESPN tv, they did a piece on some ex-Steeler who was killed in a crash this past September..he had been exhitbiting all the signs of BP, was not taking meds, and ended up ramming into an 18wheeler as he was driving up to NY.
Very sad...many people with BP disorder who take meds then feel like they are back in control of their lives, that they can go on without the medication, so they go off their medication. I am pretty sure that is what I had read about Barrett Robbins...he had been on the meds, then went off.
What year though? Not 2003. Right?
Yep, 2003.
Superbowl XXXVII
Bucs 48
Raiduhs 21
As a long suffering Bucs fan, it was a great game.
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