Videos show police search for Marshawn Kneeland before death

The Texas Division of Public Security on Friday launched hours of police physique digicam, sprint digicam and drone video that particulars their seek for Dallas Cowboys defensive finish Marshawn Kneeland within the hours earlier than officers discovered him useless of an obvious self-inflicted gunshot wound earlier this month.

The movies depict the time interval from when regulation enforcement began pursuing Kneeland in his Dodge Charger for dashing, beginning shortly after 10:30 p.m. on Nov. 5, till they positioned his physique round 1:30 a.m. on Nov. 6. In the course of the police pursuit, Kneeland crashed his automobile right into a pickup truck and fled on foot.

The DPS footage was collected from 10 troopers who have been in a number of areas all through the night time, in addition to from their autos and a drone. Some footage reveals officers responding to the crash. Some reveals troopers and different cops fanning out throughout an office-park space in Frisco close to The Star, the 91-acre campus of the Dallas Cowboys, looking parking garages, buildings, wooded areas and water ducts. Some officers have been accompanied by Ok-9s. The drone scanned the huge space for warmth signatures.

Originally of the search, officers have been apparently unaware of who they have been pursuing. Some discovered they have been in search of the Cowboys participant a minimum of an hour into their search. Some officers encountered Kneeland’s girlfriend a minimum of as soon as whereas in search of him. All through the search, troopers encountered regulation enforcement from different companies that have been helping DPS.

Officers in the end positioned Kneeland’s physique in a transportable rest room positioned in a parking circle between two workplace buildings.

ESPN reviewed the footage launched by DPS. A few of the encounters captured on the video embrace:

The positioning of the crash

Based on beforehand launched freeway surveillance video obtained by ESPN, Kneeland crashed his automobile at about 10:40 p.m. on Nov. 5.

The DPS video launched Friday reveals a trooper responding to the scene of the crash at 10:44 p.m. and checking on a lady standing outdoors a Ford F-350 pickup truck. The pickup truck had a flat entrance left tire.

“You are in a fairly large automobile,” an officer mentioned to the girl, whose automobile was struck by Kneeland. She responded: “I swear that is what saved me.” The lady mentioned the truck she was driving had been hit by a automobile that startled her with its pace. The responding trooper mentioned a number of occasions on the video that the motive force who hit her was touring as quick as 160 miles per hour at factors throughout the chase.

The lady informed police she had left dinner with a good friend when she was struck. “He hit me out of nowhere,” she mentioned to a responding officer. She briefly cried and later added: “My coronary heart is pounding. I will throw up.”

The lady informed police that the one that crashed into her ran over a hill in entrance of the grass subject the place he deserted his Charger. The DPS footage reveals the Charger’s driver-side door open and an air bag deployed. The lady mentioned the person returned to his automobile after he left it earlier than taking off once more.

The lady additionally informed officers her automobile was hit by a Hispanic man who was not more than 175 kilos. (Different DPS video from later within the night time reveals officers asking witnesses in the event that they’d seen a Hispanic man of slight or medium construct.) At 11:09 p.m., the trooper confirmed the girl a photograph of Kneeland after studying he was registered to the crashed Charger. The crash sufferer mentioned Kneeland had the identical curly hair and pores and skin tone as the person who hit her.

There have been no plates on Kneeland’s automobile. After operating the automobile’s automobile identification quantity, the trooper discovered that Kneeland had a customized tag for the Charger: “IDNTSPD”

On the crash scene, officers brazenly questioned whether or not the Charger may have been stolen as a result of there have been no plates.

Interactions with Kneeland’s girlfriend

At about 11:10 p.m., a trooper in a single video says that Frisco police informed him a white Buick is attempting to choose up the suspect.

Then at about 11:15 p.m., a special DPS trooper pulls over a white Buick. Within the automobile is a lady who would later be recognized as Kneeland’s girlfriend, Catalina Mancera.

The trooper, who apparently does not but know the suspect is Kneeland, or that the girl is his girlfriend, directs Mancera to open the automobile door, step out of the automobile and stroll backwards towards him. He places her in handcuffs and says, “You are matching the suspect automobile that is come to choose up a man, alright?”

He asks her what she’s doing and she or he tells the officer her GPS has stopped working. The officer locations her within the entrance seat of his police automobile and searches the Buick. After he clears the automobile, he removes Mancera from his automobile and takes off her handcuffs. Mancera tells him: “I stay close by, however my location — it isn’t displaying me the place I am at so I am… attempting to determine the place I am at,” and continues to elucidate that her GPS is not working. She then tells the officer she’s staying close by and does not stay within the space.

The officer sends her again to her automobile and tells her to be protected, as there is a automobile police are trying to find “matching your description.” All through the interplay, Mancera by no means mentions Kneeland.

At about 11:40 p.m., lower than half an hour later, the identical trooper meets a Frisco police officer who tells him regulation enforcement “have” Mancera once more and that “they’re attempting to get her to name him to surrender, however he is saying he will finish all of it.”

Later that night time, at about 1:00 a.m. on Nov. 6, the identical trooper drives to satisfy a set of officers who’re with Mancera. When he arrives, he confronts Mancera and says, “What’s goin’ on ma’am, why are you mendacity to me?” She replies that she didn’t lie. A retired police officer tells the trooper to again down, saying, “Let’s not do this, we’re in cooperating mode.” The trooper leaves the scene.

Mancera didn’t reply to a message from ESPN searching for remark. There seems to be no different footage of Mancera within the DPS video.

The water duct

Movies present a number of officers looking a water duct tube system within the workplace park beginning round 11:15 p.m. to see if their suspect was hiding in it. A Frisco police officer shouted right into a pipe that opened right into a grassy space, calling for anybody inside to return out and that he would ship his Ok-9 inside to seek out and chew them.

“He is an enormous dude, although, yeah?” one officer asks.

In different movies, officers claimed they heard a cough from contained in the pipes. At about 11:30 p.m., officers shot pepper balls — which emit a chemical irritant — into the pipe system. At about the identical time, an officer onsite tells the others that the suspect is armed.

Simply after midnight, a gaggle of officers on the water duct receives info that police discovered the suspect’s telephone pinged “proper the place we’re.”

“We’re actually instantly on prime of that – -like, useless heart of that circle,” an officer says.

“Watch that tunnel.”

“I imply, he is round right here someplace — I am pondering tunnel.”

The officers proceed to observe the entry to the water duct for an additional 10 minutes till some are known as to take a look at a warmth signature discovered close by.

It is unclear when officers cease monitoring the duct space.

Officers be taught they’re chasing Marshawn Kneeland

A number of of the physique digicam movies present officers studying that the suspect they’re trying to find is Kneeland.

Based on one video, at 11:31 p.m., two troopers searched the web for Kneeland, and one mentioned: “I believe he might need performed [two nights ago].” Kneeland scored his first skilled landing two nights earlier than he died, towards the Arizona Cardinals on Monday Night time Soccer.

In one other video, at about 11:55 p.m., a Frisco police officer relays what he heard on the radio to the troopers he is with, saying Plano police are “on the telephone with the NFL, [Kneeland] is texting them and his household goodbye.” (Based on earlier ESPN reporting, Dallas Cowboys director of safety Cable Johnson known as Plano police at 11:40 p.m. to ask for a welfare test on Kneeland and to report regarding texts.)

“Oh that is not good,” a trooper responds.

“This simply turned nationwide information,” the Frisco police officer says. He then searches for Kneeland on his telephone and reveals Kneeland’s image to the officers he is with, together with the Ok-9.

In one other video, at about 1:15 a.m., one trooper tells one other that the suspect is Kneeland, and a trooper says, “Anybody else they might’ve been kicking down doorways and all that.”

“They do not need him to die,” the opposite responds. “That’ll be broadcast throughout.”