Carlton Dotson

Patrick Dennehy

Dennehy at Baylor
Personal information
Born	(1982-01-28)January 28, 1982 Santa Clara, California
Died	June 2003 (aged 21) Waco, Texas
Nationality	American
Listed height	6 ft 10 in (2.08 m)
Listed weight	230 lb (104 kg)
Career information
High school	Saint Francis (Mountain View, California)
College	New Mexico (2000–2002) Baylor (2002–2003) redshirt
Position	Forward
Number	33
Career highlights and awards
2001–02 All-Mountain West Conference (hon. mention)
Career Mountain West statistics
Games Played	63
Points	404 (6.4 ppg)
Rebounds	363 (5.8 rpg)

The murder of Patrick Dennehy occurred in June 2003, when Dennehy, a 21-year-old basketball player at Baylor University, was shot by teammate Carlton Dotson.

Patrick James Dennehy (January 28, 1982 – June 2003) was an American college basketball player born in Santa Clara, California. Dennehy transferred to Baylor University from the University of New Mexico following his sophomore season in 2001–2002. In the summer of 2003, after redshirting the 2002–2003 season, he was preparing to play for the Baylor Bears in the upcoming 2003–2004 season.Carlton Dotson, a junior power forward on the Baylor basketball team who was known to be a friend of Dennehy's, murdered him. Dotson was also a transfer student, having played two seasons at a junior college in Paris, Texas, before transferring to Baylor in the summer of 2002.

Carlton Eric Dotson, Jr. (born June 1, 1982) is an American former college basketball player currently serving a 35-year prison term for the murder of Patrick Dennehy. Dotson is an inmate of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and, as of April 2017, is incarcerated in the John B. Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas. Dotson attended North Dorchester High School in Hurlock, Maryland. He played at the University at Buffalo and Paris Junior College before transferring to Baylor in the summer of 2002, where he played one season as a forward.