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Former Chargers Saftey Kiel Dies at 27

Posted by Al Gordon under NFL 

San Diego police are saying that former Chargers safety Terrence Kiel was thrown from a Chevy Sedan he was driving and killed.

Kiel, 27, was driving home from a party just after 10:00pm PT when he hit a wall in the Scripps Ranch neighborhood and was thrown from the car.

Kiel was barely breathing when paramedics reached him and he died about an hour later, police Sgt. Alan Hayward said. Witnesses told police he appeared to be driving in the wrong direction when he crashed. Police would not know whether Kiel had been under the influence of drugs or alcohol until toxicology tests were performed, Hayward went on to say.

Kiel had a very rocky off the field history. The 2003 second round pick out of Texas A&M played all four of his years in the league with the Bolts.

In 2003 Kiel was shot 3 times after an attempted carjacking in Houston.

Kiel had been led off the practice field and arrested in the locker room by Drug Enforcement Administration agents in September 2006, suspected of shipping at least two parcels of prescription cough syrup, apparently to be mixed with soft drinks to make a concoction known as “lean.”

The felony charges were later dropped after he completed community service, and he was serving three years probation for the misdemeanor charges.

He was cited for urinating in public outside a San Diego nightclub in January 2007, but the city dropped that charge.

In February 2007 he pleaded guilty to felony and misdemeanor drug charges for shipping prescription cough syrup to Texas, the most significant of several scrapes with the law.

He was released by the team after his plea.


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One Response to “Former Chargers Saftey Kiel Dies at 27”

  1. Diva on July 6th, 2008 11:28 am

    You can take them out of the ghetto, but you just can’t take the ghetto out of them.

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