The girlfriend of late Dallas Cowboys defensive finish Marshawn Kneeland broke her silence after the NFL star’s sudden demise.
“I’m grieving onerous proper now,” Catalina Mancera advised the Daily Mail on Monday, November 10. “Will probably be a very long time earlier than I’ll really feel prepared to speak at any size.”
Mancera, 22, called the police the night before Kneeland’s death on the morning of Thursday, November 6. She expressed concern over Kneeland’s well-being, telling authorities her boyfriend had “a historical past of psychological sickness.”
After a brief police chase, Kneeland was discovered close to his deserted automotive on the Dallas Parkway, lifeless of an obvious suicide. He was 24 years previous.
“We’re nonetheless within the early phases of the whole lot,” Mancera added. “We’re engaged on the funeral preparations. I don’t know the place it’s going to be but.”
Kneeland was additionally survived by his father, Shawn, who’s currently incarcerated within the Higher Peninsula of Michigan, and his three siblings: brothers, AJ and Shawn Jr., and sister, Yahmya.
The soccer star’s mom, Wendy, died in February 2024, simply two months earlier than he was chosen within the second spherical by the Cowboys within the 2024 NFL Draft.
Mancera, a designer, has been staying on the Plano, Texas, residence the place Kneeland lived previous to his demise.
Nicole Kneeland-Woods, Marshawn’s cousin, advised the Day by day Mail that the NFL participant began relationship Mancera whereas he was a student-athlete at Western Michigan College.
“Marshawn shared a really particular relationship with Catalina, whom he had been with since his sophomore 12 months of faculty,” she mentioned. “They supported one another by means of many phases of life. Catalina is a crucial a part of our household and he or she’s hurting deeply too.”
Regardless of what 911 dispatchers allege Catalina advised them, Nicole mentioned, “There have been no earlier indicators or indications that Marshawn was coping with psychological points.”
“Marshawn was a robust, loving one who cared deeply about his household and everybody round him,” Nicole added.
Along with the demise of his mom, Marshawn additionally misplaced his grandfather in 2023, which Nicole mentioned was “was extremely onerous for him.”
“However past that grief, Marshawn didn’t present indicators of melancholy or psychological well being points,” Nicole defined. “Our household is devastated and nonetheless attempting to course of one thing that feels unimaginable. We wish individuals to recollect Marshawn for his kindness, his humorousness and his drive. He was liked deeply and that love will at all times be his legacy.”
A former coach of late Dallas Cowboys lineman Marshawn Kneeland revealed he spoke to the NFL star simply days earlier than his sudden demise. “I’m crushed at this second and my coronary heart and the hearts of Marshawn’s household, teammates and coaches are shattered,” College of Michigan defensive position coach Lou Esposito mentioned in a press release […]
Dallas Cowboys proprietor, Jerry Jones, broke his silence about Marshawn’s demise on Tuesday, November 11.
“I feel all of us have unfettered emotions in regards to the individuals we love, individuals we work with, and that is only a time whenever you acknowledge that there’s no solutions,” Jones, 83, mentioned on Dallas’ 105.3 The Fan. “It makes you wish to stay life to the fullest. It makes you wish to search for the perfect in what we’ve for one another. And not directly make sense out of those occasions by way of what they’ll imply from serving to these which are right here on earth proper now.”
Jones added, “All of these issues are very pure, come to thoughts, however his demise is such a nationwide consciousness factor that it takes on a few of that gentle once we take into consideration how we go ahead.”
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