A former Seattle Seahawks player’s life was cut short after arguing with a neighbor who then fatally sh*ot him over a parking space.
On Sunday, 46-year-old Anthony ‘T.J.’ Cunningham, d*ied after he was involved in a f*ight with a neighbor in Colorado, the Daily Mail reports.
Apparently things escalated from a series of text th*reats into a street f*ight and ultimately ended in gu*nfire, Arapahoe County p*olice said.
Cunningham and 31-year-old Marcus Johnson went back and forth in texts, Colorado, p*olice said before deciding to “settle” their dispute by meeting in the parking lot outside a local high school on Sunday morning, 9 News reported.
Johnson sh*ot Cunningham at a parking lot between two schools, and he reportedly told i*nvestigators that his neighbor a*ttacked him earlier in the day, and they met near the high school to settle their dispute over a parking spot.
Cunningham, an assistant principal for Aurora Public Schools and a former University of Colorado football player who was drafted by the Seahawks was rushed to the h*ospital where he d*ied Sunday.
According to p*olice Cunningham was sh*ot several times. Johnson was charged with first-degree m*urder.
Only one f*irearm was found on the scene, p*olice reported.
Cunningham’s family has set up a GoFundMe memorial fund with a goal of $100,000.
“TJ Cunningham, a prominent Overland High School football star, CU Buffalo and eventual NFL football player for the Seattle Seahawks, was senselessly sh*ot by a neighbor after a dispute and taken from this world while doing nothing more than protecting his family,” the site says.
“TJ’s legacy is beyond words and he has left behind a wife and five beautiful children who depended on him as a husband, father and primary provider.”
