Ex-NFL Player Lawrence Philips found dead in Prison

According to Carlifornia Prison Officials, Former
American football star Lawrence Phillips, who was
a a star college running back at Nebraska in the
mid-1990s has been found dead in a case of
suspected suicide in his jail cell.
Prison Guards at Kern Valley State Prison found
the 40-year-old unresponsive in his cell shortly
after midnight on Wednesday Jan. 13th. He was
later pronounced dead at about 1.30am.
His death occurred few hours after a judge ruled
there was enough evidence for him to stand trial
for the first-degree murder of his cellmate, whom
he reportedly strangled to death in April.
Lawrence Phillips, who was already serving a 31-
year sentence for choking his ex-girlfriend, had
been in prison segregation since his cellmate's
death.

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