pretty shocking. i believe this is the first famous ("house-hold name") American to commit suicide since Kurt Cobain (unless you count the accidental overdoes like Chris Farley, Anna Nicole Smith, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, etc) also, this is the is the 8th player to meet an untimely death from the 1994 Chargers team, which was the only Chargers team in history to make the Super Bowl--they lost to the 49ers: Steve Young (325 yards, 6 TDs), Jerry Rice (149 yards, 3 TDs), Deion Sanders (1 INT), etc DEFENSE --starting left DE Chris Mims (started in the Super Bowl) -- died at age 38 in 2008. he was found facedown on the bathroom floor of his Los Angeles apartment. cause of death was an enlarged heart --starting right DT Shawn Lee (started in the Super Bowl) -- died at age 44 in 2011, in Raleigh, North Carolina. cause of death was a cardiac arrest brought on by double pneumonia --starting left OLB David Griggs (started in the Super Bowl) -- died at age 28 in 1995 in a car crash in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. he drove his car off a freeway ramp and slammed into a sign pole. subsequent tests would show that his blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit --starting right OLB Junior Seau (started in the Super Bowl) -- died at age 43 in 2012, found dead in his Oceanside, California home of a self-inflicted gunshot wound --backup LB Doug Miller (appeared in the Super Bowl) -- died at age 28 in 1998. he was struck by lightning while camping in Colorado. CPR was being performed on Miller when he was struck again by a second bolt --backup LB Lewis Bush (appeared in the Super Bowl) -- died at age 42 in 2011 from a heart attack OFFENSE --backup RB Rodney Culver (appeared in the Super Bowl) -- died at age 26 in 1996, when ValuJet Flight 592 plunged into the Florida Everglades shortly after takeoff from Miami International Airport, killing all 110 people aboard --backup C Curtis Whitley (didn't appear in the Super Bowl, but played in 14 games that season, starting 2) -- died at age 39 in 2008. was found dead in his trailer in Texas. Whitley had a history of substance abuse and had twice been suspended by the NFL, and toxicology results pointed to an accidental overdose. after Lee's death in 2011 (Lee was the 6th of the 8 to die), the Chargers RB that started in the Super Bowl, Natrone Means, said: “Not again. It’s crazy, just crazy, that we’ve had so many guys who have fallen. I can’t make any sense of it. I’ve given up trying. You just hope you quit getting these random messages out of nowhere that another teammate has passed away."
I believe Stan Humphries was on that team also and was one of the first players I heard of as being associated with after effects of repeated concussions. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/1997/nov/13/head-problems/
Of course, I don't have all the fact in this, but this suicide does not seem to add up. The two variables that has me suspicious is that he was shot in the chest. I figure that us a very painfull method. Second, the girlfriend found him.
I heard the same thing on the radio yesterday. That's a significant number of people from a fairly small group to die untimely.
