Shortly before Dallas Cowboys defensive end Marshawn Kneeland died by suicide , the player said goodbye to friends and said he couldn’t bear to do any time behind bars, police recordings revealed on Tuesday.

The Cowboys' head of security, Cable Johnson, was put through to police in Plano asking for officers in that Dallas suburb to do a welfare check on the 24-year-old.

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“He sent out some group texts that are concerning, probably mental health," Johnson told a police dispatcher. “The group text seemed to be saying goodbye and he made some statement about not being able to go to prison or to jail.”

It wasn’t clear what Kneeland could have been referencing about possible time behind bars.

The dispatcher didn’t as

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