{"id":29264,"date":"2012-12-03T15:40:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T13:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=29264"},"modified":"2012-12-03T15:40:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T13:40:06","slug":"jovan-belcher-deadnfl-team-kansas-chiefs-city-players-killed-his-girlfriend-then-himself-us-news-29264","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/jovan-belcher-deadnfl-team-kansas-chiefs-city-players-killed-his-girlfriend-then-himself-us-news-29264\/","title":{"rendered":"Jovan Belcher Dead:NFL team Kansas Chiefs City players killed his girlfriend then himself \/ US News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Jovan-Belcher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29276\" title=\"Jovan-Belcher\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Jovan-Belcher.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Jovan-Belcher.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Jovan-Belcher-280x196.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Jovan-Belcher-514x360.jpg 514w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>The Kansas City Chiefs beat the Carolina Panthers 27-21 after going ahead with a scheduled match a day after of one of their players killed himself.<\/h1>\n<p>The crowd at the Kansas City Chiefs&#8217; Arrowhead Stadium observed a moment of silence for victims of domestic violence and their families.<\/p>\n<p>There was no mention of Jovan Belcher who killed 22-year-old Kasandra Perkins before driving to the NFL team&#8217;s practice facility and turning the gun on himself.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Romeo Crennel and general manager Scott Pioli tried to stop Belcher, but could only watch as he shot himself in the head.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs&#8217; chairman Clark Hunt offered sympathy to the families affected by the murder-suicide on Sunday, calling it &#8220;an incredibly difficult 24 hours for our family&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Chiefs consulted with the league about whether to play the game as scheduled, but ultimately left it up to the coach and the team captains to decide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/nfl-fotbal-kansas-carolina.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29277\" title=\"nfl-fotbal-kansas-carolina\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/nfl-fotbal-kansas-carolina.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/nfl-fotbal-kansas-carolina.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/nfl-fotbal-kansas-carolina-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/nfl-fotbal-kansas-carolina-280x186.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/nfl-fotbal-kansas-carolina-539x360.jpg 539w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs rallied to win their second game of the season 27-21.<\/p>\n<p>Police have not released a motive for the shootings but said the couple had been arguing recently. They had a three-month-old daughter who is being cared for by family.<\/p>\n<p>Belcher was a 25-year-old native of West Babylon, New York, on Long Island, who played college football at Maine.<\/p>\n<p>He had played in all 11 of the Chiefs&#8217; games this season.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Chiefs beat the Carolina Panthers 27-21 after going ahead with a scheduled match a day after of one of their players killed himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,80,63,1,118,14],"tags":[39719,39721,39722,39727,39715,39725,39728,39726,39716,39718,39724,39723,39714,6022],"class_list":["post-29264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-world","tag-jovan-belcher","tag-jovan-belcher-dead","tag-jovan-belcher-girlfriend","tag-jovan-belcher-kasandra-perkins","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-kansas-city-chiefs-beat-carolina-panthers","tag-kansas-city-chiefs-shooting","tag-kasandara-perkins","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-nfl-team-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-players-killed-girlfirend-then-himself","tag-us-kansas-city","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}