(CNN) — Dallas Cowboys defensive end Marshawn Kneeland died Thursday morning at age 24, the team said in a statement.

The Frisco Police Department stated Thursday that their officers, along with the Texas Department of Public Safety, found a wrecked vehicle that had previously eluded police and crashed on Dallas Parkway in Frisco, Texas.

Police say Kneeland fled the vehicle on foot, and officers searched the area with the “assistance of the FPD K-9 and Drone units.”

Frisco police say officers were informed that Kneeland “had expressed suicidal ideations” and “was later located at 1:31a.m., deceased with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.”

The Cowboys released a statement Thursday morning which read: “It is with extreme sadness that the Dallas Cowboys share that Marsha

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