American football player with Kansas City Chiefs kills himself at team stadium

American media reported that the 25 year-old was involved in an earlier shooting a few miles away.

He was named by local police as Jovan Belcher, a linebacker for the Kansas Chiefs, who was born in New York but had been playing for the team since 2009.

The club confirmed that "an incident" had occurred at the Arrowhead stadium on Saturday morning.

Kansas City police spokesman Darin Snapp told AP news agency that authorities were told early on Saturday morning that a woman had been shot, five miles away from the Arrowhead complex. The woman was believed to be his girlfriend.

Upon arriving, Mr Snapp said that police witnessed a black male in a car with a handgun to his head talking to two Chiefs officials. Police then heard a gunshot.

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