Affidavit: Former teammate shot missing Baylor player
By Compiled from Times wires
Published July 1, 2003
WACO, Texas - Police are investigating whether missing Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy was killed in Waco by a former teammate, who drove to Maryland, dumping the gun along the way, according to a court document released Monday.
The Dallas Morning News reported a search warrant affidavit, which police submitted June 23 to obtain permission to examine the missing player's computer, says former Baylor forward Carlton Dotson told a family member he shot Dennehy after an argument.
Dotson has not been arrested or charged. He could not be reached for comment, but from his home in Hurlock, Md., on Friday, he said he was cooperating with investigators.
"The case is currently still classified as a missing persons case," Waco Police Chief Alberto Melis said Monday. "But because of the information being received in regards to Mr. Dennehy's disappearance, this case is being investigated as if he were the victim of a homicide."
Citing a police informant, the Associated Press reported Dotson told a cousin he got in an argument with Dennehy while they were shooting guns and the 6-foot-10, 230-pound center pointed a gun at Dotson as if to shoot him. But Dotson instead shot Dennehy in the head.
Dotson, a 6-foot-7, 220-pound forward, left the basketball program this summer to find more playing time at another school, Baylor officials said.
The affidavit doesn't document the nature of the argument or a motive for the shooting, though Dennehy's girlfriend, Jessica De La Rosa, told police a man named "Harvey" had made threats to Dennehy.
After obtaining the warrant, police searched the computer but found no clues, District Attorney John Segrest said Saturday.
Dennehy was reported missing June 19, and his sport utility vehicle, with its license plates removed, was found in Virginia Beach, Va., on Wednesday. Virginia Beach police found no signs an injury had occurred in the vehicle.
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