Lawrence Phillips, former NFL running back and standout at The University of Nebraska, was found dead Wednesday morning inside his prison cell, according to the USA Today. He was 40-years-old. Phillips was serving a 31-year sentence that began in 2008 at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano, California. Prison authorities are investigating the death as a potential suicide. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Terry Thornton reported that the prison staff found Phillips to be unresponsive after a routine security and curfew check just after midnight local time.
The staff rushed Lawrence Phillips to a local medical facility, where he was pronounced dead an hour and a half later. Considered by many as the definition of wasted potential, a life littered with poor choices comes to a sad conclusion.
Phillips was on trial for the murder of his cellmate and was facing the death penalty if he were to be convicted. He never let it get that far after a Superior Court judge ruled there was “sufficient cause to believe” Lawrence Phillips committed murder. This news coming just one day prior to Phillips’ death.
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