Adolphus Demetrius DuBose (March 23, 1971 - July 24, 1999) was a former American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 linebacker

Linebacker

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 in the NFL

National Football League

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, who was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

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 in the second round (34th pick overall) of the 1993 NFL Draft

1993 NFL Draft

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. After failing to live up to expectations, he was allowed to leave as a free agent and signed with the New York Jets

New York Jets

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 in 1997. He was waived by the Jets only four months later.

Life after football

Dubose's ticket in life had been football, but Dubose grew weary of football and soon lost interest in the sport towards the end of his professional career. Some speculate he was into drugs, and, in fact, at the time of his death Dubose had illegal drugs in his system, including ecstacy and cocaine

Cocaine

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.

During the off-season, he visited places such as Australia

Australia

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, New Zealand

New Zealand

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, and various countries in Europe

Europe

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. He also spent time in Vail, Colorado

Vail, Colorado

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 tuning in his snowboarding

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 skills. After football he invested much of his football earnings in not very successful business ventures including a line of sports clothing and a beach volleyball

Beach volleyball

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 league. Dubose had aspirations of becoming a successful pro beach volleyball

Volleyball

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 player and was on his way to achieving his goal.

Death

DuBose was shot (12 times) to death by two police officers, Timothy Keating and Robert Wills, in San Diego during a confrontation on July 24, 1999 after he illegally entered another person's house. He was said to be in the process of an alleged burglary. He then resisted arrest and started to attack the police officers, including trying to steal their weapons. Allegations also persist he tried to flee the scene. Police contended they had no choice but to protect themselves and others when the fatal shots were fired. DuBose was shot twelve times by the two officer's with their 9mm handguns. The toxicology reports showed that he had alcohol, cocaine and ecstacy in his system. He was 28.

The FBI and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California investigated the shooting and found that it was justified. The entire report has been posted on the web. In May 2000, "[t]he Citizens Review Board on Police Practices concluded that while the shooting was a justified use of deadly force under the department's guidelines, the two officers 'did not exercise sufficient discretion.'" In February 2003, a ten-person federal jury in a wrongful death suit found the officers to be not liable.