Judge orders ex-NFL player Darron Lee held without bond as prosecutors weigh death penalty

Former NFL linebacker Darron Lee volition stay down bars arsenic helium faces a first-degree execution complaint successful Tennessee.

Lee was taken into custody past week. In summation to the execution complaint successful the decease of his girlfriend, Lee faces a complaint of tampering with oregon fabricating evidence. 

On Wednesday, a Hamilton County Criminal Court Judge ruled that Lee, who spent the archetypal 3 years of his nonrecreational shot vocation with the New York Jets, would enactment jailed without bond.

Lee is not scheduled to instrumentality to tribunal until adjacent month, but prosecutors connected Wednesday signaled the lawsuit could suffice for the decease penalty.

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Former New York Jets linebacker Darron Lee was arrested by the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office Feb. 6, 2025, and charged with first-degree execution and tampering with fabricating evidence. (Danielle Parhizkaran/NorthJersey.com/Hamilton Country Sheriff's Office)

While Hamilton County District Attorney Coty Wamp made it wide determination is nary last determination concerning the pursuit of the decease penalty, helium did mention factors that could effect successful the lawsuit becoming eligible for superior punishment.

"Mr. Lee was successful a location with a pistillate (who) was, for deficiency of a amended term, beaten to death," Wamp said successful court, arguing for the justice to withhold bond. "And the mentation that helium gave doesn't marque immoderate consciousness whatsoever.

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"You walked successful the door, determination were boxes," Hamilton County Sheriff's Office Det. Brian Lockhart said, according to NewsChannel9. 

"A batch of worldly successful the surviving room. The deceased was successful the level lying connected her back. There was humor going up the staircase. On the manus railing determination was blood. On the walls, determination was blood. On the level successful the surviving country determination was blood. On the level successful the hallway and the stairs."

Darron Lee (50) of the Kansas City Chiefs sits connected the seat during a crippled against the Detroit Lions astatine Ford Field Sept. 29, 2019, successful Detroit. (Rey Del Rio/Getty Images)

The unfortunate successful the lawsuit had been surviving successful a rental location with Lee. The location is besides believed to person been the tract wherever Lee is alleged to person carried retired the transgression implicit an estimated 10-day period, Lockhart testified Wednesday.

The detective said helium was contiguous during the autopsy and learned the imaginable origin of decease was blunt unit trauma homicide. An autopsy study has not yet been released.

According to an apprehension affidavit, archetypal responders connected Feb. 5 went to a location successful the Chattanooga suburb of Ooltewah for a telephone of CPR successful progress, wherever they recovered the pistillate already dead.

Lee told deputies the pistillate mightiness person fallen successful the shower, but, according to an apprehension affidavit, determination were extended amounts of humor successful antithetic areas of the location that were inconsistent with Lee's statement.

Darron Lee of the New York Jets runs the shot successful the 3rd 4th against the Detroit Lions astatine Ford Field Sept. 10, 2018, successful Detroit. (Rey Del Rio/Getty Images)

Authorities carrying retired a hunt warrant recovered aggregate types of trauma to the woman's body, including a stab coiled to her abdomen, an evident quality wound people connected her shoulder, a ample bruise connected her head, achromatic eyes with dense swelling and dried humor connected her look and neck, according to the affidavit.

Investigators besides recovered alcohol, narcotics and a gun, the affidavit said.

The affidavit said Lee had a facial injury, lacerations connected his hands, wounds connected his thorax and humor wrong the lawsuit of his cellphone.

Detectives besides identified humor that idiosyncratic attempted to cleanable up successful aggregate areas of the house, successful summation to cleaning supplies adjacent wherever investigating confirmed determination had been humor stains but nary humor was visible, the affidavit said.

Wamp said Lee was connected probation successful Florida for aggravated battle with a deadly limb successful 1 region and artillery successful different and connected probation successful Ohio for attempted battery.

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Mike Little, a lawman nationalist defender representing Lee, told The Associated Press it was premature for him to marque immoderate statements.

The Jets selected Lee successful the archetypal circular of the 2016 NFL Draft. He aboriginal played for the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills, past appearing successful an NFL crippled successful 2020.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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