More details about NFL player Marshawn Kneeland‘s death have been released.
Shortly after news of the Dallas Cowboys defensive end’s passing emerged, Texas police said Kneeland was found dead in an apparent suicide following a car chase with authorities.
“On November 5, 2025, at approximately 10:39 p.m., the Frisco Police Department responded to assist the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) with locating a vehicle that had evaded troopers during a pursuit that entered the city of Frisco,” local officials shared in a press release. “After losing visual of the vehicle, troopers located it minutes later, crashed on southbound Dallas Parkway near Warren Parkway.”
“Initial reports indicated that a male subject, later identified as 24-year-old Marshawn Kneeland of Plano, TX fled the scene on foot,” the statement continued. “Officers established a perimeter and initiated a search of the area with the assistance of the FPD K-9 and Drone units.”
According to police, during the course of the search, officers received information that Kneeland had expressed suicidal ideations, and that his body was found at 1:31 a.m. local time.
