The Tennessee Titans called police for help searching for Vince Young because his therapist told coach Jeff Fisher the quarterback mentioned suicide before driving away from his home with a gun.
Both Fisher and Young have said what happened late on Monday was overblown by the media. But the report filed on Tuesday by Nashville police showed that Fisher was worried what his quarterback might be doing after the call from Young’s therapist.
“I asked him, ‘What made her worry about him?’” Lieutenant Andrea Swisher wrote. “He stated, ‘His mood, his emotions, he wants to quit and he mentioned suicide several times.’”
The Nashville City Paper obtained the report through a public records request.
The Titans’ head of security notified police around 7:30pm that he had a player “going off,” and Fisher was in his truck when he saw Nashville police in the parking lot at LP Field writing a report on a separate incident.
Young’s manager, Mike Mu, told police he had tried to follow Young when the quarterback left his home. But Mu said he couldn’t keep up with Young on Interstate 65 despite driving 145kph.
Fisher connected police with Young’s therapist, Sheila Peters, a clinical psychologist who had met with Young earlier on Monday. It was then that Young used the word suicide in conversations with her.
During the search for Young, Peters arranged for an evaluation by employees from a psychiatric hospital in Nashville. Then Fisher heard from Young’s agent that the quarterback was safe and at an apartment with a female friend.
The agent, Major Adams, said on Tuesday that Young had been watching TV and eating chicken wings with a male friend during the four hours people were searching for the quarterback.
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