FORMER NFL STAR LAWRENCE PHILIPS FOUND DEAD IN HIS JAIL CELL

Lawrence Phillips, who was already serving a 31-year sentence for choking his ex-girlfriend, has been found dead in a case of suspected suicide in his jail cell.

                   

His death occurred few hours after a judge ruled there was enough evidence for him to stand trial for the first-degree murder of his cellmate, whom he reportedly strangled to death in April. Phillips had been in prison segregation since his cellmate's death.

According to Carlifornia Prison Officials at Kern Valley State Prison, Former American football star Lawrence Phillips, who was a star college running back at Nebraska in the mid-1990s, found the 40-year-old unresponsive in his cell shortly after midnight on Wednesday January, 13th. He was later pronounced dead at about 1.30am.