Posted on 01/13/2016 11:46:59 AM PST by DFG
Lawrence Phillips' sad tale came to a tragic end on Wednesday. The troubled former NFL running back was found dead in prison, according to a press release from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Phillips was 40. The death is being investigated as a suspected suicide. According to the press release, Phillips was found unresponsive at 12:05 a.m. on Wednesday when the staff at Kern Valley State Prison was conducting security checks. He was transported to an outside hospital where he was pronounced dead at 1:27 a.m.
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Do you mean its not drag, drig, drug?
Well......bye.
RIP. Lawrence was a true pioneer in NFL criminality.
Condolences to family and friends of Lawrence Phillips.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nI58pnBVjS0 Philipps runs @ Nebraska. Turn off volume.
He’ll never swim Kern River again.
Lawrence Philipps did play on the undisputed greatest college football team in history.
Something horrible must have happened to him when he was a child. He was a ward of the state at 11.
Here’s another graduate of the Charlie Sheen School of Predictable Outcomes.
The only surprise here is that the charges that sent him to prison weren’t reduced to misdemeanors and he was sentenced to 10 years of no-show probation like Michael Irvin.
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