REPORT: FISHER TOLD POLICE YOUNG MENTIONED SUICIDE
Posted by Michael David Smith on September 12, 2008, 5:56 p.m.
A police report obtained by the Nashville City Paper reveals more information about the circumstances that led to the Titans asking the police to help them track down Vince Young — and it suggests that the team feared Young would kill himself.
The report says Titans Coach Jeff Fisher told police that Young’s therapist said Young “mentioned suicide several times.”
According to the report, Titans director of security Steve Berk told police he had “a player over at the stadium going off.” The officer who wrote the report says she was later told by another officer “that it was Vince Young and that he was driving a black Mercedes and armed with a gun.”
Fisher reportedly told police he had gotten a call from Young’s therapist and “she was worried about him” as a result of “His mood, his emotions, he is injured, he wants to quit, and he mentioned suicide several times.”
The report states that Young’s therapist arranged for an evaluation by employees of a Nashville psychiatric hospital.
Young eventually arrived at the Titans’ facility to meet with Fisher, spoke with a therapist and then left. Police have said an unloaded gun was in Young’s car.
The Titans had no comment on the story.
