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Photo: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (2) A former NFL player is charged with murder after allegedly beating his girlfriend’s 5-year-old daughter to death, PEOPLE confirms. Cierre Wood — a former Notre Dame running back who had short stints with five NFL teams — initially was arrested Tuesday at a hospital along with his girlfriend, Amy Taylor, on charges of child abuse and neglect of Taylor’s child, says a spokesman for the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas....

Photo: Facebook A former NFL playeraccused of murdering his girlfriend’s 5-year-old daughterallegedly forced the girl to work out because he thought she was “chunky.” Cierre Wood — a former Notre Dame running back who had short stints with five NFL teams — has been charged with murder in the April 9 death of La’Rayah Davis. Wood was initially arrested along with his girlfriend, La’Rayah’s mother, Amy Taylor, on charges of child abuse and neglect after the girl was checked into a Las Vegas hospital unresponsive, with her legs, torso and abdomen covered in bruises....

Photo: Ted S Warren/AP/Shutterstock A former NFL player was arrested on Wednesday after he allegedly shot a woman at random at a business in Boulder, Colorado. Justin Bannan, 40, has been charged with attempted first-degree murder, first-degree assault with extreme indifference, first-degree assault with intent to cause serious bodily harm and first-degree burglary, PEOPLE confirms. Police allege he shot a woman who worked in the same office building as he did....

Former Seattle Seahawks offensive tackle Chad Wheeler has been found guilty of two counts of domestic violence involving a former girlfriend, according to multiple reports. The ex-Seahawks backup was found guilty on Thursday of first- and second-degree domestic violence assault, and not guilty of unlawful imprisonment,ESPN,The Seattle TimesandSports Illustratedreported. A King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office spokesperson told ESPN that the state could seek a mandatory maximum sentence of five years for the first-degree assault charge because the jury determined that Wheeler “used force or means likely to result in death....

Photo: The deangelo williams Foundation/Facebook Five years may have passed since DeAngelo Williams lost his mother tobreast cancer, but the former NFL player is still committed to fighting against the disease. Back in 2014, DeAngelo’s mother Sandra Hill passed away from breast cancer at age 53. The running back, who played eight seasons for the Carolina Panthers and another two for the Pittsburgh Steelers, also lost four aunts to the disease before the age of 50,Todayreports....

Photo: John Locher/ap Former NFL playerHenry Ruggswas sentenced to at least three years in prison for a DUI crash that killed a woman and her dog,AP Newsreported on Wednesday. Ruggs, 24, was found to be intoxicated while driving his sports car at 156 mph on a city street before causing afiery crash in Nevada that killed 23-year-old Tina Tintorand her dog in Nov. 2021, per a report from theAPat the time....

Former NFL playerKevin Warehas been indicted on murder and tampering charges inthe death of his girlfriend, Taylor Pomaski. Pomaski was last seen at a party at her home in Spring, Texas, on April 25, 2021. For months, police found no trace of her until December of that year, when the Harris County Sheriff’s Department discovered human remains during their investigation into Pomaski’s disappearance. They were identified at the end of April as belonging to Pomaski....

Photo: Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Former NFL playerPhillip Adams, who police say killed six people before shooting himself in the head earlier this year, suffered from “unusually severe"chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, researchers announced this week. A neuropathological examination of Adams' brain following his death revealed he had stage 2 CTE, Dr. Ann McKee, a neuropathologist and director of Boston University’s CTE Center, said in a statement sent to PEOPLE. While not all football players develop CTE, it is not uncommon — in a 2017 study of thebrains of 111 deceased NFL players, Boston University researchers found 110 of them had the condition....

Sergio Brown, Myrtle Brown.Photo:Dan Mullan/Getty Images; Family Handout Dan Mullan/Getty Images; Family Handout The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office previously told PEOPLE that Myrtle’s death is being investigated as a homicide, and that she died as a result of “multiple injuries due to assault.” According to Wednesday’s press release, Sergio was taken into custody in San Diego while “re-entering” the United States after being in Mexico and “is awaiting extradition to Maywood, IL, to face charges of First-Degree Murder....

Sergio Brown and Myrtle Brown.Photo:Dan Mullan/Getty Images; Family Handout Dan Mullan/Getty Images; Family Handout Former NFL player Sergio Brown, who wasarrested in connection with his mother’s death, has been denied a pretrial release, according to several outlets. Prosecutors alleged during his court appearance on Wednesday that Brown, 35, was the last person seen with his mother, Myrtle Brown, and he had booked a one-way ticket to Cancun, Mexico following her death, according to theChicago Sun-Timesand theAssociated Press....

Zac Stacy.Photo: Orange County Corrections Department Zac Stacy, the former NFL running back accused ofbrutally beating the mother of his infant soninside her Florida home, allegedly told police his ex-girlfriend “staged” the Nov. 13 attack, which was caught on video. Stacy was arrested as he exited a flight from Nashville at Orlando International Airport on Nov. 18, according to police in Oakland, Fla. Hours earlier, authorities urged the former running back to turn himself after video showed the woman, who has publicly identified herself as Kristin Evans, being attacked....

Brandon and Karli Short.Photo: Brandon Short/Instagram The daughter of former NFL linebacker Brandon Short, whowas fatally shot Monday, was pregnant when she died. On Monday, the former New York Giants player announced on Facebook that his daughter Karli Short had been killed. “My heart is broken. I’ve lost the light of my life, my oldest daughter Karli passed away this morning in a senseless act of gun violence,” Brandon wrote. “The love she had was so pure and true....

After 19 years behind bars in North Carolina, former NFL wide receiver Rae Carruth was released from prison early Monday morning. The 44-year-old ex-Carolina Panthers player —convicted in 2001 for conspiracy to commit murder, after plotting the murder of his pregnant girlfriend — was released from the Sampson Correctional Institution in Clinton, North Carolina, PEOPLE confirms. The former first-round draft pick was serving an 18- to 24-year sentence. In February,officials told PEOPLE Carruth would be released in October, but did not provide a specific date....