Your Say: Search for answers begins in murder-suicide

Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher fatally shot his girlfriend and then committed suicide Saturday morning, police said. Comments from Facebook:

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It's so sad to know that two lives have ended too soon and unnecessarily. Someone had to have known there was an impending problem. Things like this don't just happen.

No matter how much we want to give our friends and family their privacy, we must always care enough to notice. We have to vow to pay more attention to the people we love.

Cornisha Taylor

The Chiefs definitely need to address the issue, and counseling should be offered to all parties involved. My prayers go out to both sides of the victim's family.

More concerning is the younger generation of student-athletes who are watching how some adults are solving personal problems, and resorting to taking someone's life is not the answer.

Damion Caldwell

It's awful when people think they have nothing to live for, and even worse, take innocent people with them.

Clare Louise Watson

Happens every day in the USA. People consumed with jealous, sick controlling rage, and lost souls thinking death will fix all their problems. But all they do is leave a mess of broken families and sadness.

Eduardo R. Guerra

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It's sad, but this guy was a coward and a thief for taking someone's daughter/sister/mother from her family. Probably he couldn't man up and take the jail sentence he'd no doubt have gotten. Then he took his life in front of people, perhaps permanently scarring them. Sorry, but he is not a man!

Joshua Brewer

Nobody knows the state of mind he was in. Whether this is related to head trauma from playing football or whether he was simply just a bad person. My point is to stop judging. Two people have lost their lives.

Martin Almonte

Sad to think that a person can be going through so much pain that he feels the only option is to take another's life, as well as his own. You never know the demons people battle. I'm not saying what he did was right, but my prayers go out to his family, friends and loved ones, as well as his girlfriend's family.

Stacey Lee Objartel

I'm stunned by how much attention and sympathy is given the killer, and how little is given to the murdered woman, who had just given birth to a baby girl.

I do not feel an ounce of sympathy for Belcher or the Chiefs organization. I do have a heavy heart for the little girl who will never know her mom thanks to this cold-blooded murderer.

Scott Haddock