His post-playing years had been troubled. In 2014, Barber was detained by the police in Mansfield, Texas, additionally exterior Dallas, and hospitalized for a psychological well being analysis.
And in keeping with police stories, he was arrested in 2019 on two misdemeanor counts of legal mischief for incidents that occurred the 12 months earlier than through which, whereas he was out jogging, Barber approached two totally different automobiles and struck and broken them. He pleaded no contest, and his sentence included 12 months of probation.
Final 12 months, the previous Dallas broad receiver Dez Bryant posted a spotlight reel of Barber’s performs on Twitter and wrote that “he’s down and out dangerous … we’re only a stat and moments to most individuals.”
On Monday, Bryant wrote on Twitter: “An excessive amount of to digest, a lot too say … That is actual life, it may be any of us. We’d like one another, we want unity.”
Marion Sylvester Barber III was born on June 10, 1983, in Plymouth, Minn., west of Minneapolis. Like his father, Barber performed on the College of Minnesota, the place he was a part of a strong backfield with Laurence Maroney. Barber rushed for 1,196 yards and 1,269 yards in 2003 and 2004.
The Cowboys chosen him within the fourth spherical of the 2005 N.F.L. draft.
Soccer was a household enterprise for the Barbers. Along with his father, Barber’s brothers Thomas and Dominique additionally performed for the College of Minnesota Gophers. Dominique was a defensive again with the N.F.L.’s Houston Texans.
In a press release on Thursday, P.J. Fleck, the Gophers’ head coach, mentioned, “Marion was among the best to ever play at Minnesota, and he’s an enormous cause many individuals are Gopher followers at the moment.”
