WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2003
SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 23
HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION
Police search gravel pit for Baylor player's body
The Associated Press
WACO, Texas — Investigators on foot and horseback searched a gravel pit near the Brazos River yesterday for the body of Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy, who police believe was killed by a former teammate.
The teammate, Carlton Dotson, was charged with murder Monday in Chestertown, Md., near his hometown. He was ordered held without bail yesterday, and his attorneys said they would oppose his transfer to Texas.
The search for the body was centered just miles from the Baptist university where Dotson and Dennehy were on the basketball team last season. Waco police Sgt. Ryan Holt said no body had been found late yesterday.
The search began Monday night after Dotson spent about two hours with authorities in Maryland, where he lives.
Dotson, 21, admitted to FBI agents that he shot Dennehy in the head "because Patrick had tried to shoot him," according to an arrest warrant released yesterday.
Outside the Chestertown courthouse Monday, Dotson told a reporter: "I didn't confess to anything."
Defense attorney Grady Irvin said he
had not spoken to Dotson since his arrest. He said he would examine the arrest warrant to see if any comments Dotson made in recent weeks were included.
"If it is, there is a significant likelihood that his competency to make those statements are in question," Irvin said yesterday.
Dennehy, 21, was last seen on campus June 12, and his family reported him missing June 19. The next day, Waco police said an informant reported that Dotson told someone he shot Dennehy in the head after the two argued.
Dotson was seen on June 12 in the Texas hometown of his estranged wife, driving Dennehy's Chevrolet Tahoe, the warrant said. The vehicle was found abandoned, without license plates, in Virginia on June 25.
Dotson went to Chestertown, about 55 miles from his hometown of Hurlock, Md., on Sunday and called 911, Chestertown Police Chief Walter T. Coryell said. When officers arrived, Dotson told them he "needed counseling" and was hearing voices, Coryell said.
Dennehy's stepfather and mother, Brian and Valorie Brabazon, have said Dennehy was threatened shortly before his disappearance and reported the threats to his coaches.
NFLFOOTBALL
Kansas City quarterback focuses on improvement
The Associated Press
RIVER FALLS, Wis. — Quarterback Trent Green is trying to put a stop to all the talk at Chiefs' training camp about the team's playoff potential or the possibility of making the Super Bowl.
Green said the team needs to stay focused on improving in practice each day. The only game Green thinks the Chiefs should be looking at is the first one.
His warning: Not so fast.
"That's a lot of big talk early on," said Green, who is in his 10th year in the
NFL. "We're only in the fourth practice Our most important thing should be winning on Sept. 7 against San Diego. It's not only the opener, and not only a conference opponent, but a division opponent. And everybody knows, based on the new system, the division games are your most important. So let's focus in on beating San Diego and then we'll go from there."
Green is as excited as the rest of his teammates about the team's potential, but he said any talk during training camp of making the playoffs is premature.