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Marlin Adarryl Barnes (April 6, 1974 – April 13, 1996) [1] was a linebacker for the University of Miami Hurricanes. He was found brutally beaten to death in his apartment in 1996, along with his longtime friend, Timwanika Lumpkins. [2] Barnes was a six-foot, 220-pound linebacker who played second string for the Hurricanes.
Bryan Sidney Pata (August 12, 1984 – November 7, 2006) was an American football defensive lineman for the Miami Hurricanes and was majoring in criminology. [2] After leaving a football practice during his fourth year at the school, Pata was murdered, a crime unsolved for 15 years, but eventually discovered to have possibly been committed by a Miami teammate.
The murder was covered on the Investigation Discovery show The Perfect Murder. His jersey number was retired by the team in October 2021; he was the third player in the team's history to have that honor. [59] The ceremony also included naming of a road to the stadium in his honor. [60]
Jones, 35, a former Miami Hurricanes football player, is said to have fatally shot Bryan Pata, 22, in 2006. ESPN covered the murder case in November 2020, naming Jones as a potential suspect.
Shane Clifton Curry (April 7, 1968 – May 4, 1992) was an American professional football defensive end for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for Georgia Tech and the Miami. He was selected by the Colts in the second round of the 1991 NFL draft. [1]
Rae Theotis Carruth [1] [2] (born Rae Lamar Wiggins; January 20, 1974) is an American former professional football player who was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder. He played as a wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL).
Purdue: 14 members of football team were killed in a railroad collision (1903). Northeastern Oklahoma A&M: 5 football players were killed in a head-on highway crash (1966). Marshall: 37 members died in an airplane crash (1970). Wichita State: most of the starting players and coaches, 31 in total, died in an airplane crash (1970).
The three men convicted of Puopolo's murder were all black and appealed their first degree murder convictions in part on a claim that the prosecution used peremptory challenges to exclude blacks from the jury. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court remanded the case for new trial after finding that eleven of twelve deliberating jurors were white.