LSU receiver Lacy found dead

[MHS831]

50 minutes ago, frankw said:

Unstable mental state and a firearm. Not a good combination. Unfortunately this is a very distinctly American storyline.

It sure is.

[Mr. Scot]

On 4/13/2025 at 10:43 PM, Brooklyn 3.0 said:

New information obtained by WBRZ says Lacy was arguing with a family member shortly after 11 p.m. Saturday. He reportedly pulled out a gun and shot it at the ground before leaving the area.

About 30 minutes later, a constable spotted Lacy driving and attempted to make a traffic stop. Deputies said Lacy refused to stop and was chased for several miles before crashing.

A report from the Harris County Sheriff's Office says that when deputies walked up to Lacy's vehicle to take him into custody, they didn't realize he shot himself during the pursuit and before the crash.

The WBRZ Investigative Unit reported that Lacy was set to appear before a grand jury on Monday connected to a fatal crash in Lafourche Parish. He was arrested by Louisiana State Police in December 2024. Troopers said he was speeding and driving across the center line in a no-passing zone on La. 20, causing a wreck that killed 78-year-old Herman Hall. Lacy was arrested and booked for negligent homicide, felony hit and run, and reckless operation of a vehicle. He bonded out less than two hours after being booked. 

Damn

[Mr. Scot]

21 hours ago, rayzor said:

tragic all the way around. i feel sorry for everyone involved. 

most of us make mistakes that could have led to someone dying had only one or two tiny variables not worked in our favor.

when mistakes are made, it's important to have a good, graceful, supportive, and redemptive support system around that won't condemn you when everyone and everything else does. kid probably didn't have that. 

Sad to say though, it feels like most high level athletes have a support system that tells them nothing is their fault...even when it is.

(hence, how we end up with guys like Deshaun Watson)

That's not saying anything about this kid. Just a general observation...

Edited 17 hours ago by Mr. Scot

[Mr. Scot]

18 hours ago, frankw said:

Unstable mental state and a firearm. Not a good combination. Unfortunately this is a very distinctly American storyline.

Unstable mental state and an automobile is an equally bad combination...

[MHS831]

4 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

Sad to say though, it feels like most high level athletes have a support system that tells them nothing is their fault...even when it is.

(hence, how we end up with guys like Deshaun Watson)

That's not saying anything about this kid. Just a general observation...

Very true--I saw it in high school.  I coached TA McLendon.  I liked him, but he learned that he could miss practice, did not have to work hard in the classroom, and there were people who could get him out of trouble (I talked to an attorney who told me some stories).  The town went crazy over the team (state champs).  When TA took the SATs, he drove to South Carolina to a testing facility 100 miles away when they were offering the SAT at the high school he attended. (Reason?  Believed that the head coach had "a guy" who could help--his scores were very good.) I might be the only teacher/coach who ever disciplined him (A teacher asked him to be quiet during an assembly and he told her "I talk if I want to.  I am famous.")  I took him to the office and told him that his attitude sucks, and they are not preparing him for success. etc.  I was at a track meet that spring, and I talked to TA--he was being recruited, and he was appreciative of the time I took him to the office.  I talked to a scout from Tennessee who was there, asking him if he was there to talk to TA.  He said, "TA needs a babysitter.  We don't do that at Tennessee."  Amato, however, signed TA and the HS coach's son to babysit TA at State.  I saw that attorney again, and he told me that he (while TA was at State) had to get him off a DUI charge.  I told him that the town ruined TA--he agreed.  When TA was a JR at NC State, he never went to a class--he told me that.  He thought that he would be drafted.  He was not.  Atlanta signed him as an UDFA.  Gave him $10,000 to sign.  TA took his buddies to ATL and they partied during OTAs.  I ran into a guy I knew who was with an Atlanta assistant coach in Charlotte.  The Assistant coach for the Falcons said that TA would come to film sessions/meetings hung over, late, and he would sleep during the meeting--as an UDFA.  The scout said that TA was allowed to do the same thing at State.  I saw TA about 5 years late and he was about 280 and supposedly has several kids from different mothers.  He was very nice.  Told me, "you were the only one who gave a poo about me. I did not like you."    

TA was a good kid who was ruined by the people who somehow benefited from his play--so they tolerated him and created a double standard that became his norm.  Again, I do not blame TA.  He was naturally a stud and was always better than others.  I watched him play basketball in middle school--he was beast.  They were babying him then too (I knew his coach).  These small town enablers ruined him, in my view.  To your point.

[kungfoodude]

3 minutes ago, MHS831 said:

Very true--I saw it in high school.  I coached TA McLendon.  I liked him, but he learned that he could miss practice, did not have to work hard in the classroom, and there were people who could get him out of trouble (I talked to an attorney who told me some stories).  The town went crazy over the team (state champs).  When TA took the SATs, he drove to South Carolina to a testing facility 100 miles away when they were offering the SAT at the high school he attended. (Reason?  Believed that the head coach had "a guy" who could help--his scores were very good.) I might be the only teacher/coach who ever disciplined him (A teacher asked him to be quiet during an assembly and he told her "I talk if I want to.  I am famous.")  I took him to the office and told him that his attitude sucks, and they are not preparing him for success. etc.  I was at a track meet that spring, and I talked to TA--he was being recruited, and he was appreciative of the time I took him to the office.  I talked to a scout from Tennessee who was there, asking him if he was there to talk to TA.  He said, "TA needs a babysitter.  We don't do that at Tennessee."  Amato, however, signed TA and the HS coach's son to babysit TA at State.  I saw that attorney again, and he told me that he (while TA was at State) had to get him off a DUI charge.  I told him that the town ruined TA--he agreed.  When TA was a JR at NC State, he never went to a class--he told me that.  He thought that he would be drafted.  He was not.  Atlanta signed him as an UDFA.  Gave him $10,000 to sign.  TA took his buddies to ATL and they partied during OTAs.  I ran into a guy I knew who was with an Atlanta assistant coach in Charlotte.  The Assistant coach for the Falcons said that TA would come to film sessions/meetings hung over, late, and he would sleep during the meeting--as an UDFA.  The scout said that TA was allowed to do the same thing at State.  I saw TA about 5 years late and he was about 280 and supposedly has several kids from different mothers.  He was very nice.  Told me, "you were the only one who gave a poo about me. I did not like you."    

TA was a good kid who was ruined by the people who somehow benefited from his play--so they tolerated him and created a double standard that became his norm.  Again, I do not blame TA.  He was naturally a stud and was always better than others.  I watched him play basketball in middle school--he was beast.  They were babying him then too (I knew his coach).  These small town enablers ruined him, in my view.  To your point.

I can confirm a chunk of this. I witnessed some of it in person.

[MHS831]

Just now, kungfoodude said:

I can confirm a chunk of this. I witnessed some of it in person.

It made me sick.  I told TA (I was the only coach who played football in college) that they were not doing him favors.  In college, they will make you....then he goes to play for Amato, who was just as bad.  He was done before he knew it, before he was 20.  He could have been a beast.

[kungfoodude]

1 hour ago, MHS831 said:

It made me sick.  I told TA (I was the only coach who played football in college) that they were not doing him favors.  In college, they will make you....then he goes to play for Amato, who was just as bad.  He was done before he knew it, before he was 20.  He could have been a beast.

Yeah, there were others that experienced similar. Amato was old school FSU to the nth degree. Lol