Former NFL running back Joe McKnight was killed Thursday afternoon in Terrytown, La., in an apparent road rage incident, reports Jonathan Bullington of NOLA.com. McKnight was 28.
A witness indicated that she saw a man yelling at another man, who proved to be McKnight, at an intersection. McKnight tried to apologize to the man, but he fired more than one shot at the former Jet and Chief. “I told you don’t you f— with me,” said the shooter, according to the witness.
McKnight is now the second former NFLer to die in a Louisiana shooting this year. Longtime Saint Will Smith was the victim of a road rage incident in April.
McKnight, whom the Jets chose in the fourth round of the 2010 draft after a standout career at USC, had some success in New York as a return man. He ran back two kickoffs for touchdowns during his three-year stint with the Jets and averaged an NFL-best 31.6 yards per return in 2011. McKnight was out of football in 2013, but he returned in 2014 as a member of the Chiefs. Unfortunately, though, a torn Achilles ended his season – and NFL career – after only two games. McKnight spent this season with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League.
The PFR staff sends our condolences to McKnight’s family and friends.
rip my boy
another black man gunned down
And how do you know it wasn’t a black man who shot him? It was a road rage incident, so it’s likely it was a black man
Everybody should stop assuming. Saying it’s likely another black man doesn’t make you right either.
Who cares what color the other man was? A man lost his life over a senseless act of violence and all you want to talk is color. Priorities are way off base.
Yeah cuz white people don’t have road rage or commit murder.
This is a football site, not a political one. Keep those to yourselves.
Later bra
Tragic event such as this and all people want to comment about is the color of a human being skin, pathetic. Only in America