Athletes as victims
November 10, 2006
The incident involving the Celtics' Sebastian Telfair was just the latest among many in which professional and Division 1 collegiate athletes have become crime victims. Others in recent years include: University of Miami football player and NFL prospect Bryan Pata, who was shot to death Tuesday at his apartment complex in Kendall, Fla. Pata, 22, was licensed in Florida to carry a concealed weapon.Five Duquesne basketball players who were shot in September on the Pittsburgh campus. All survived.Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Jerome McDougle, who was shot in the abdomen and robbed of a $20,000 watch last year while he sat in his Mercedes in Miami. McDougle survived.Vanderbilt running back Kwane Doster, an NFL prospect, who was shot and killed in 2004 in the parking lot of a nightclub in Tampa .Former Red Sox minor leaguer Dernell Stenson, who was shot to death in 2003 after he was kidnapped in his SUV by two men outside a nightclub in Scottsdale, Ariz.Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy, who was fatally shot by a teammate, Carlton Dotson, in 2003 in Waco, Texas.Chris Childs, then a guard for the New Jersey Nets, who was robbed at gunpoint outside New York nightclub Justin's in 2002 of $30,000 worth of jewelry and cash.Indians pitcher C.C. Sabathia and his cousin, who were robbed at gunpoint of $44,000 worth of jewelry and cash in 2002 at a Cleveland hotel.Tim Carter, a New York Giants receiver, who was carjacked outside a New Jersey movie complex in 2002 and robbed of his BMW and $10,000 worth of jewelry and cash.Telfair's cousin, Stephon Marbury, then a guard for the New Jersey Nets, who was robbed in 2000 of a $150,000 diamond necklace as he waited in his Bentley for a light to change in Manhattan.Antoine Walker, then a Celtics forward, who was among six people robbed at gunpoint in 2000 outside a nightclub in Chicago. The robbers made off with $100,000 worth of jewelry, including Walker's $55,000 Rolex, and $3,000 in cash.Compiled by Bob Hohler 
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