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[$David]

Don't know if this was posted already but i'll post it again



OCEANSIDE, Calif. — Behind the police tape, a white coroner’s van sat in front of a garage on the 600 block of South The Strand. It waited to collect the body of Junior Seau, a linebacker among the most feared in N.F.L. history, father to three teenagers, son to the mother who wailed long and loud on Wednesday.

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Junior Seau of the San Diego Chargers in 2002.


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Junior Seau’s mother, Luisa, center, with friends and family members at her son’s home, where he was found.

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Junior Seau in 2008 while playing for the New England Patriots.

Earlier in the day, according to the Oceanside Police, Seau’s girlfriend went to the gym. When she returned, she found Seau in a bedroom, a gunshot wound to the chest, a revolver found near his body but not a note. He was 43.
The police are investigating Seau’s death as a suicide, Lieutenant Leonard Mata said, adding that they do not expect to finish the investigation until next week.
Seau would be the second former N.F.L. player to commit suicide in the past two weeks. Ray Easterling, a safety for the Atlanta Falcons in the 1970s and a plaintiff in a high-profile lawsuit against the N.F.L. over its handling of concussion-related injuries, died on April 19 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. In February 2011, the former Chicago Bears star Dave Duerson shot himself in the chest,saying in a note that he wanted his brain donated to the study of football head injuries.
As word of Seau’s death spread through the city he long called home, the crowd swelled outside the police tape, fans clad in Seau jerseys and San Diego Chargers caps, carrying flowers and lighted candles and homemade signs.
At 1:17 p.m., or roughly four hours after Seau’s girlfriend called police, after officials said they performed “lifesaving efforts” on an unconscious Seau in his bedroom, dozens of family members and friends surrounded the coroner’s white van. The back door opened. Seau’s body was placed inside. As the van inched slowly down the street, through a crowd that numbered in the hundreds, Seau’s mother, Luisa, threw her hands in the air and screamed.















































R.I.P a Great football player
1969-2012

[$Furl]

one of the best LB of all time

[@Chain]

So sad. He was truly one of the best players of our time. Speechless...

[$Andy]

what the fuck

[$Merk]

Sucks.

[$Feelthef1re]

RIP

those head injuries can put you in quite a mess

[Musl1m F T W]

Furl, on 03 May 2012 - 07:51 PM, said:

one of the best LB of all time