Dallas police need to interview a Dallas Cowboys participant in reference to a homicide final month in Outdated East Dallas, a number of sources with data of the investigation instructed The Dallas Morning Information.

Cornerback Kelvin Joseph was concerned in a disturbance March 18 exterior a bar within the 3600 block of Greenville Avenue, at Martel Avenue, the identical night time that Cameron Ray, 20, was fatally shot there, in keeping with a number of sources. Ray was shot about 2 a.m. exterior the OT Tavern, and brought to a hospital, the place he died.

Cowboys officers have inspired Joseph to talk with police about what he is aware of, in keeping with a crew supply who was not approved to talk publicly on the matter. Cowboys officers don’t imagine Joseph is the shooter.

The Cowboys declined remark Thursday night. Joseph’s lawyer additionally declined remark.

Joseph, who additionally goes by the rapper pseudonym “YKDV Bossman Fats,” was a second-round choose within the 2021 draft following his faculty profession at LSU and Kentucky.

Video footage proven by KDFW-TV (FOX4) earlier this week reveals a person in a hoodie and an obvious YKDV necklace standing with a gaggle contained in the bar. That very same group was later caught on one other video getting right into a combat with Ray and some others on the intersection of Greenville and Martel.

After the combat ends, Ray and his buddies stroll throughout the car parking zone, and somebody opens hearth at them from inside a automobile passing by, footage reveals.

Ray was visiting Dallas with three buddies to have enjoyable for a weekend, detective Tonya McDaniel instructed FOX4 earlier this week. He and his buddies weren’t answerable for inflicting the disturbance, and police had been working to determine the group seen within the bar, together with the person within the necklace, McDaniel instructed the station.

That is the primary identified main prison investigation involving a Dallas Cowboys participant since Josh Brent, a former lineman who in 2014 was sentenced to 10 years probation for his 2012 drunken-driving crash that killed his finest pal and teammate, Jerry Brown Jr. One other former Cowboy, Dwayne Goodrich, spent six years in jail after he killed two males, Demont Matthews and Joseph Wooden, in a 2003 hit and run crash.

That is the newest of a number of low season woes for the Dallas Cowboys. A lady sued Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones, saying she is his daughter. Jones alleged she was extorting him, which her attorneys denied. A a multimillion-dollar settlement with the crew’s cheerleaders after accusations of voyeurism got here to gentle, in addition to a lawsuit a couple of videotape of a sexual enounter involving one in every of Jones’ sons.

Joseph’s choice final April attracted some consideration across the league. On the time, a normal supervisor from an AFC crew instructed The Information that Joseph was off his crew’s board due to off-the-field issues. A second NFL scout mentioned that Joseph failed a number of drug checks in faculty.

Joseph was suspended from the Fiesta Bowl in early 2019 whereas at LSU earlier than his switch to Kentucky.

Cornerback was a main place of want for the Cowboys in 2021.

After Byron Jones and Chidobe Awuzie departed throughout the previous 12 months, they focused former South Carolina cornerback Jaycee Horn or ex-Alabama nook Pat Surtain II with the No. 10 total choose. Each gamers have been drafted at No. 8 and 9, respectively, so Dallas traded again and selected linebacker Micah Parsons at No. 12 total.

Parsons was the highest-ranked defender on the Cowboys’ draft board and have become the NFL Defensive Rookie of the Yr. The crew chosen Joseph with its subsequent choose.

Joseph performed sparingly as a rookie, showing in simply 14 defensive snaps whereas contributing totally on particular groups through the first 14 video games. He began two of the ultimate three of the common season, ending the 12 months with 16 tackles, one compelled fumble and two passes defensed.

The Cowboys personal the No. 24 total choose within the 2022 draft, which shall be held from April 28 to 30.

Workers Author Calvin Watkins contributed to this report.