These are a couple articles that came out after a few days... I think it'll provide some more details...
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Many questions, few answers regarding Foley
September 5, 2006
What we know: Little. Steve Foley is a Charger, a professional football player. During Sunday morning's wee hours, he was shot near his Poway home by an off-duty Coronado police officer who had been driving an unmarked car.
What we don't know: Plenty. It is a bizarre incident, one in which little information has come forth on either side.
Foley is an athlete. He has had previous problems, most of them alcohol-related (never convicted). He has been shot by a cop. It's 2006. Not a surprise. It's the world in which we live, the world in which we report.
I was told Foley, who is said to be out of danger – although he's been in intensive care – was shot in the leg and hand at 3:41 Sunday morning near his Poway home. I later was told, without specifics, I was misinformed as to the areas of the gunshot wounds. Now I've heard he was hit in the chest, arm and the knee area (an artery). Whatever, he won't play this year.
If this had been the first incident regarding Foley, it might be surprising, only because of the starting linebacker's locker room persona.
“He's a good kid,” Chargers coach Marty Schottenheimer says.
Foley seems every bit the ideal teammate. He's a personality. His teammates love him. But, once again, we don't live with him, so we can't really know him, or anybody else who plays games for a living – or anyone who doesn't, for that matter. We can only think we do. We don't know that cop, either, or what the hell he was doing.
In this case, in which reports are sketchy – it's an off-the-field injury, so the team insists information come from other sources – there are far more questions than answers.
“I have no answers,” says David Levine, Foley's Florida-based agent. “I don't even know how to define his condition. He's out of surgery, I can say that. I'll be honest with you, I have no first-hand knowledge. I've already been wrong before. I'm not going to be wrong a second time. I'm not there. Everything I'm getting is from someone else.”
Very confusing. Levine may have been right the first time, about the chest wound. We know who got shot. We don't know where. We don't even know the name of the officer who shot him, and we may never know, the way laws are written.
Fact: In April, Foley was accused of resisting arrest, battery on a police officer and being drunk in public on a University City street. Last week, the District Attorney's Office dropped the charges.
That Foley was out with a female companion after 3 a.m. is not surprising. He was returning from an annual dinner thrown for veterans by rookies at a downtown restaurant.
Questions:
Was he driving drunk? (His female companion, Lisa Maree Gaut, has been charged on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon – she allegedly drove the vehicle in the officer's direction – and driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.)
What was the off-duty police officer doing out after 3 in the morning?
What exactly happened involving the officer and his call for help? (There are signs on our freeways this weekend pleading for motorists who think they've spotted a drunk driver to call 911.)
Was there any particular reason Foley should have believed a man driving a plain car after 3 a.m. who had followed him for 10 miles was a real policeman?
When Foley reached in his pocket, was he going for his wallet, gum or was he armed?
Did the officer properly identify himself?
Did the police have it out for Foley regarding the April incident? Are there racial profiling overtones to this?
“Was the officer white?” asks Levine. “I don't know. This guy's out after 3 in the morning and follows someone 10 miles and he's not recognized as a police officer. You don't call for help? And the person you're following is outside his own house? I don't even know how far Steve was from him when he was shot. Every side of this is bizarre.”
What isn't bizarre is Foley's track record. He's had problems before, having enrolled in the NFL's alcohol program. If nothing else, the time has come for him to be responsible for his off-the-field actions. This incident might also have had alcohol on its breath.
What I don't get is why millionaires drive after a night on the town. I hate to drive sober. Call a cab. Hire a limo. You're mortal.
Given this, it's difficult to forecast how this will affect the team, which opens its season Monday night in Oakland. The Chargers are very deep at linebacker, but Foley is a starter, and he's now lost for the season, at least.
“He's down for the year,” General Manager A.J. Smith says. “I had to make that decision because I don't believe, from the medical information I've gathered, he'll be able to help us this year.”
Lesser incidents have been distractions.
“That's absolutely a legitimate question,” Smith says, “and I don't have an answer to it. This is a tight-knit group of players. It's a fact of life. You deal with it and move forward.”
Forward from what? If we only knew.
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They're also the ones who have tasted the sytstem a few times and resent anybody associated with it.