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Former indictments were made by a Texas grand jury on July 28 NFL player Kevin Ware41-year old Taylor Pomaski was convicted of the murder of her girlfriend Taylor Pomaski (29-year-old) and for tampering on a corpse.
According to Kim Ogg, Harris County District Attorney in Texas, Ware could spend 15 years or more in prison if convicted of murder.
“He’s never held accountable,” Pomaski’s mother, Leslie Mandeville said to Fox News Digital about Ware’s history of running-ins with law enforcement before he was accused in the murder of her daughter.
Later, she added that Ware should spend “the rest of their lives in prison” with anyone else involved in the murder case against her daughter.
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Pomaski was reported missing after a party at her house on April 25, 2021. However, her remains weren’t discovered until May 2022.
Mandeville first filed a missing persons’ report on May 9, 2021. On that day, she visited Ware’s home with police who were interviewing the ex-NFL player to pick up Pomaski’s dog. Mandeville stated that she only had one interaction with her daughter’s boyfriend. Although he was friendly when they spoke, he was reluctant to give Pomaski the dog to her mother. Mandeville stated that Ware, Mandeville, and police eventually decided it was best for Pomaski to surrender the dog to her family.
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The U.S. Marshals Service In June 2021, Ware was arrestedAfter he failed earlier in the year to appear for supervision, Ware was arrested on a bond violation. According to the station, Ware was alleged to have driven over 115 mph and was later found with weapons and drugs.
The former member of Washington Football Team and the San Francisco 49ers remained in custody in the Montgomery County Jail without bond.
Ware is not the first former NFL player convicted of abuse or murder. While some experts have pointed to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), or brain trauma inflicted by repeated blows to the head, as part of the reasoning behind why some players commit horrific crimes, Mandeville says Ware had a lengthy criminal history dating back to his football days when he lived in Washington state, as NBC Sports previously reported.
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At Pomaski’s funeral, a woman came up to Mandeville, hugged her, and told her that she knew Ware as a girl when they lived on the same street growing up.
“She said he tormented her, her entire childhood,” Mandeville said. “…She would say, ‘This should have never happened. This should have been stopped years ago.’ And she would walk away and come back. She kept saying, ‘I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry.'”
“It didn’t just start,” Mandeville said of the alleged abuse.
She described her daughter as “funny,” “happy,” and “front and center, all the time.” Pomaski loved “being with her friends and family” and always had something to do. She was interested in computer science but had worked various odd jobs, as she was still trying to find her professional niche.
Mandeville hadn’t heard from her daughter for a couple of weeks since the April 25 party where she was last seen. Mandeville decided to file the missing persons report on May 9 because it was Mother’s Day and her father’s birthday, and she hadn’t called her parents, which Mandeville said was unlike her daughter.
Pomaski’s ex-boyfriend also called her parents that day to inquire about their daughter because he knew they would have heard from her on May 9, as well. Pomaski’s ex then informed her parents that the 29-year-old had confessed to him that she had been in an abusive relationship and had been struggling to get out. Mandeville is unsure about the extent of the abuse, but she said she knew that “nothing she would have done” would have made her deserving of such treatment.
“He’s 6-3, 300 pounds. She’s 5-2, 100 pounds,” Mandeville said. “There was no reason for this to happen.”
Mandeville said she does know what the answer is in terms of how to ease the “guilt and shame” that their loved ones feel when they are being abused or have a substance addiction.
“I hope we can somehow figure out a way to … take that away. When you’re the family member on the outside, it’s very difficult. You don’t know what to do. She’s an adult, and you’re saying, ‘Please, let’s get you out of there.’ But they’re not ready. And Taylor is the tragic side to this, where it ends terribly,” she said.
Lacy Johnson, a chief prosecutor in the Harris County DA’s Major Offenders Division, who is handling the murder case, said in a July 28 statement that although the “investigation has been going on since Taylor’s disappearance in 2021, the court process is just beginning,”And the DA’s office is encouraging “anyone who has knowledge about what happened between Kevin and Taylor to come forward.”
If you or someone you know is suffering from domestic violence, please contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1−800−799−7233 (SAFE).
This report was contributed by Greg Norman, Fox News.
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