The destiny of ex-NFL participant Kevin Ware Jr. has been set. The previous Washington Redskins participant was first indicted again in 2022 for homicide and tampering expenses, simply over a 12 months after his girlfriend, Taylor Pomanski, disappeared. Per official paperwork, she was final seen at her residence at a celebration in April of 2021 in Texas.
“Police looked for clues in her disappearance, however have been unable to search out something till December of that 12 months, when the Harris County Sheriff’s Division found human stays in a north Harris County ditch,” Folks reviews. “The stays have been recognized as Pomaski on the finish of April 2022.”
In accordance with additional courtroom paperwork, the previous San Francisco 49er was accused of “utilizing a knife, a blunt object, and strangulation, together with a fashion and means unknown to the grand jury” to kill Pomaski. Paperwork additionally element {that a} lady alleges that Ware informed her he “minimize Pomaski’s throat and burned her physique,” taking a cellular phone picture of the hearth when it occurred.
Ware reportedly agreed to take a plea deal simply this Wednesday, a couple of days earlier than jury choice was set to start for his trial, per Folks. In courtroom, Decide Brian Warren pressured Ware Jr. to simply accept the plea deal after the prosecution introduced it. Decide Warren reportedly informed him, “I’m going to play soccer with you proper now.” He additionally defined that he might face life in jail if he let this deal expire. After asking for time to “take into consideration” the deal, Ware returned after twenty minutes and accepted it.
Ware, who plead responsible, accepted 30 years in jail “for homicide and tampering with proof, particularly a corpse, within the 2021 dying of Pomaski.”
Ware performed school soccer for the College of Washington earlier than finally making it to the NFL. He the 2003 and 2004 NFL seasons with the Washington Redskins and San Francisco 49ers.
Ware’s formal sentencing is at the moment scheduled for Friday, Might ninth. He’ll perform this sentence alongside along with his drug and weapons expenses from 2021.
Ware was arrested on “two counts of possession with intent to ship a managed substance, and illegal possession of a firearm as a felon.” He was launched on $23,000 bond in April 2021, simply days earlier than Pomaski disappeared, and finally given a 15-year concurrent sentence for each expenses after taking a plea deal.