Patrick Dennehy

The Murder of Patrick Dennehy occurred in June 12, 2003 when Dennehy was shot by teammate Carlton Dotson. He was 21 years old.

Patrick James Dennehy (January 28, 1982 – June 12, 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, murdered him. Dotson was also a transfer student, having played two seasons at Paris Junior College in Paris, Texas, before transferring to Baylor University 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 attended North Dorchester High School. He played at University at Buffalo and Paris Junior College before transferring to Baylor in the summer of 2002, where he played one season as a forward.

In the summer of 2003, reports surfaced that Dennehy and Dotson were concerned about their safety. They had purchased two pistols and a rifle and practiced firing them at a farm north of Waco. On June 14, Dennehy told friend Daniel Okopnyi that he was worried about threats made to Dotson by two teammates. Dennehy also indicated that he and Dotson would be at a party the following day at which neither appeared. Over the next few days, there were indications that something had gone wrong: Dennehy's mother and stepfather, Valorie and Brian Brabazon, were concerned that they had received no calls on Father's Day, Dennehy's roommate, Chris Turk, returned from an out-of-town trip to find that Dennehy's dogs had not been fed in days. On June 19, the Brabazons filed a report with the Waco Police Department that Dennehy was missing. On June 25, Dennehy's Chevrolet Tahoe was found in the parking lot of a shopping mall in Virginia Beach, Virginia with its license plates removed, allegedly by Dotson.

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