Former Arizona Wildcats cornerback Bobby Wolfe has been charged with manslaughter following the dying of a girlfriend who was additionally the mom of their 2-year-old baby.
Wolfe, 22, advised Pasadena (Texas) Police that he shot 23-year-old Chrisheena Lee of their condominium as a result of he thought she was an intruder, in response to KHOU-11 in Houston.
Lee was shot six instances simply earlier than 3:30 a.m. on Monday, police mentioned. Wolfe mentioned he heard somebody breaking in on the door of their condominium, grabbed his gun and fired photographs.
Sgt. Raul Granados advised ABC13 in Texas that police are “going to gather shell casings. We will have a look at the trajectory of the bullets and evaluate that to his assertion and attempt to see if every little thing matches up.”
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“If it actually is unintentional, clearly this can be a very unhappy scenario,” he mentioned. “If he did imagine there was a break-in and, the truth is, there wasn’t, he ended up capturing his liked one. It is a very tough scenario for him. If there was an intruder, clearly, we wish to discover possibly doorbell cameras, possibly cameras on the condominium advanced, to see if we’re going to need to search for a suspect on the market, or what occurred on the door that startled him sufficient to get his weapon out and begin capturing.”
Lee’s cousin, Tasha McCoy, advised ABC13 that Lee advised her household that Wolfe was stalking her.
“He simply would not go away her alone,” McCoy mentioned.
One other relative, Travis McCoy, advised the station Wolfe “must be in jail.”
“You did not have to go to this extent, and then you definately lie about it, and canopy it up,” McCoy mentioned. “It simply would not make sense.”
Wolfe can also be being held on an excellent warrant for a separate case, in response to ABC13.
Wolfe was a four-star recruit within the Wildcats’ 2019 recruiting class. Following a standout profession at Houston’s Madison Excessive College, Wolfe garnered presents from the UA, Texas A&M, Georgia, Florida, LSU, Oregon and Texas, amongst others.
He performed two years for the Wildcats earlier than opting out of the pandemic-affected 2020 season.
Wolfe is the second former Wildcat to be held in reference to a dying this summer time. Final month, Ex-UA receiver and defensive again DaVonté Neal was arrested and charged with felony first-degree homicide and different crimes by a Maricopa County grand jury.
Neal was charged with one rely of first-degree homicide, one rely of drive-by-shooting, and one rely of discharging a firearm at a construction within the 2017 dying of Bryan T. Burns. Court docket paperwork indicated Neal might have been jealous of Burns for being in a relationship with the mom of Neal’s baby, in response to a report final month by 12News.com.
Contact sports activities producer Justin Spears at 573-4312 or jspears@tucson.com. On Twitter: @JustinESports
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