Editing Lawrence Phillips (section)

== Post-football career ==

August 2005 was a very bad month for Lawrence Lamond Phillips. On the 2nd, he slapped his girlfriend, grabbed her by her hair and choked her unconscious. The woman testified that she woke up on the floor. Two weeks later, Phillips slapped and choked his girlfriend again, then he threw her into a bathtub. On the 21st, Phillips stole a car and drove into three teenagers after an argument during a pick-up football game; the teenagers survived. He was arrested later that day and charged with assault with a deadly weapon, assault with great bodily injury, false imprisonment, making a criminal threat, domestic abuse, auto theft, and attempted murder.

In August 2009, Phillips pleaded guilty to all the charges and was sentenced to 31 years in prison.

On April 12, 2015; Phillips was accused of murdering his cellmate Damion Soward, who was serving an 82-to-life sentence for first-degree murder. In August 2015, Phillips was officially charged with murdering Soward; if he was convicted of strangling Soward, Phillips would have faced 25 years to life.

Phillips was found unresponsive in his cell by correctional officers around midnight on January 12, 2016, and pronounced dead at 1:30 am on January 13, 2016. His death was ruled suicide by hanging and his family then donated his brain to be examined for chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) at Boston University.
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