Lawrence Phillips found dead in prison at age 40

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Lawrence Phillips, the former football star facing murder charges, was found dead early Wednesday at Kern Valley State Prison, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Terry Thornton told USA TODAY Sports.
The death is being investigated as a suspected suicide, according to press release from the department.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2016/01/13/lawrence-phillips-death-prison/78742058/

Some people, no matter how fast they are, can't outrun their own demons.

EDIT - here's Damon Benning talking about LP. Worth a listen.

http://www.stationcaster.com/player_skinned.php?s=111&c=981&f=4256103

 
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That's too bad. Too bad for Lawrence that he could never figure it out, and too bad that he's done everything he could to tarnish the reputation of everyone that tried to help him along the way.

 
Listening to Damon Benning talk about Lawrence really opened my eyes about the guy. I'm sure someone has a link to the old podcast around the time when they found his cellmate dead.

 
I don't condone any of his actions off the football field, but he was a very troubled person that had a very crappy childhood. He will always be my favorite NU RB with what he did ON THE FIELD.

Depression and mental illness can be very hard to overcome. RIP LP.

 
Sad day really. This guy was one of the backs I watched when I played RB for my high school and wanted to run like. I am not going to talk about the negative that he was surrounded by just the good he did on the field at NU.

 
His run against Florida was the most impressive offensive play of that game (and among the I've ever seen). Then maybe his first catch and run early. Then fraziers run, which was more a microcosm of the game than in and of itself impressive.

LP is probably the best "pure runner" that I've seen at the college level.

A tragedy all around.

 
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Sadly, I think this is the only way Lawrence was able to find peace. Like knapp said, he just had too many demons chasing him that he couldn't outrun.

 
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