3 Charged In Death Of U. Of Memphis Player

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Three men were charged Monday in the fatal campus shooting of a University of Memphis football player, authorities said.

Taylor Bradford, 21, was shot Sept. 30 shortly before police found him fatally wounded in his car, which had crashed into a tree.

Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin said that the attackers intended to rob Bradford, but apparently did not get what they had come for. He declined to elaborate.

"The investigation is ongoing, and we do expect additional arrests," Godwin said.

Police said last week that one of the leads they were following was whether Bradford had won a few thousand dollars at a Mississippi casino the night before he was killed.

The three Memphis men, who are not students at the university, were identified as DaeShawn Tate, 21; Victor Trezevant, 21; and Courtney Washington, 22. All three were in police custody.

All three face the possibility of life in prison or even the death penalty, reports CBS affiliate WREG. Police are still looking for more suspects, possibly students.

After the shooting, university officials told students, faculty and staff that the suspects had fled the campus, but the school canceled classes as a precaution.

Bradford, a Nashville native who transferred to Memphis from Samford University, was buried over the weekend.

[kailumego1]

Keithle1 yes they were black and although you mentioned it out or sarcasm, black on black crime is a real problem in inner-cities, of which the black community needs to vehemently address instead of wasting its time over petty white on black/black on white issues..

The life expectancy for young black males is much lower than the national average 25/79 and this should be unacceptable to blacks..

Certainly many whites posting on this story see this as an opportunity to sarcastically take pot shots at blacks, but black folks need to see beyond their "childish" collective consciousnesses and tackle this "disease" plaguing black communities.

The "Black Judas Syndrome" is real and stems back to African ideology, of which "African on African" brutality has existed for centuries...

Black folks need to recognize this misanthropic African ideology that fosters black self-genocide and purge their communities of this behavior and the people that support black self-genocide.

These criminal and amoral actions/behavior is[are] not going to stop on its own, and certainly white folks aren''t going to fix this problem as you can see many are "please as peaches" to see black folks murdering each other...

It is time black folks wake up and acknowledge the "Black Judas Syndrome" and start a campaign for unity within black communities and sanction those black folks that buttress black genocide...

[keithle1]

Guys who killed him were black?

[stevensky-2009]

MylDonBCS -
I think Josie was commenting on the second picture -- the one of the gentleman in an open casket at his funeral.
I agree that it was a little more that we needed to see.

[three-o-six]

You will never get guns out of the hands of criminals. The drugs that are illegal here are smuggled into the US at great profit -- If you made guns illegal for private ownership there would still be as many guns in criminals hands and a new crop of criminals -- gun runners. You are better off with gund in the hand of law abiding citizens than just in the hands of criminals!!

[Krazcarl]

The ages of the culprits have me troubled if it was just for cash am I missing something?

[oscarez]

"Guns no-matter what will always be plentiful because they are a BIG TICKeT item ..I say get rid of all the low life scum losers."

Posted by hollyt2 at 05:23 PM : Oct 08, 2007

This would be all the GOP white NRA members.

[rfcnj68]

brianp55 I believe that we all have the right to bear arms but remember this with kids in the house one decides to sneak out one night and sneak back in, you hear that noise be cautionous the life you safe could be your childs.

[hollyt2-2009]

Guns no-matter what will always be plentiful because they are a BIG TICKeT item ..I say get rid of all the low life scum losers.

[brianp55]

I have a gun in a locked case under the bed as a last line of defense and as a father and homeowner I like having it there.

[myidoncbs]

BTW, this is another tragic example of why we DO NOT need any more guns in this country. The more guns we buy, the more they make; the more they make, the more get into the hands of worthless re-tared thugs who use them to rob and murder people.

You may, or may not, have the "right" to have a gun, but this country would be much better off if everyone decided NOT to get one.

The NRA management are GUN DEALERS. They don''t care about you, or me, or anybody else. They just want to make money selling lots of guns to lots and lots of paranoid, stu-pid people. Your safety is not their concern.