DIX HILLS, N.Y. (AP) — Hundreds of mourners have attended a wake in New York for Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, who killed his girlfriend and himself.
The 25-year-old Long Island native was in an open casket in an auditorium-size room at the Upper Room Christian World Center church in Dix Hills, 30 miles east of New York City.
Police say the West Babylon native shot 22-year-old Kasandra Perkins and then shot himself Dec. 1. The couple had a baby daughter named Zoey.
Belcher’s mother, Cheryl Shepherd, declined to speak with a reporter when contacted by telephone Tuesday.