Former Linebacker DuBose Fatally Shot in San Diego

Demetrius DuBose, a former linebacker for Notre Dame and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, was fatally shot by San Diego police during a struggle when officers responded to a burglary call, officials said. He was 28.

Police arrived at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday at a Mission Beach home and found a group of people at an intersection. DuBose, who matched a description for one of the burglary suspects, ran when officers tried to talk to him, police spokesman Lt. Tom Orden said.

The officers chased DuBose and when they caught him, there was a struggle and he knocked down the officers. DuBose ran again. When officers caught him a second time, there was another struggle, Orden said.

The officers used a martial arts weapon to subdue him. “They tried to warn him to stop,” Orden said.

DuBose grabbed the weapon, started to attack the officers and that’s when police shot him, according to Orden.

DuBose was taken to Scripps Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival at 9:14 p.m., according to San Diego County Medical Examiner Chuck Bolton. DuBose had been shot several times.

DuBose played for Notre Dame from 1989 to 1992. He was suspended for the first two games of the 1992 season after the NCAA determined that he received more than $1,000 in improper benefits from a Seattle couple with ties to the university.

In 1993, Notre Dame received its first penalty stronger than a public reprimand when the NCAA ordered the school to forfeit two football scholarships because of the DuBose case.

DuBose was a second-round draft pick of Tampa Bay in 1993 and played four seasons with the team.

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