Vick not ruled out as suspect in shooting...Eagles may cut the convicted felon

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The Associated Press is reporting that a source close to the Philadelphia Eagles claims the team is now considering dropping Michael Vick from the team, regardless of whether or not he was directly involved in last weekend’s shooting. The added scrutiny is apparently proving to be too much trouble for the Eagles.

The Eagles, and the entire NFL came under fire last year, when Vick was allowed to return to the league, after spending 18 months in federal prison for leading a dog fighting operation.

Though Michael Vick maintains his innocence in last weekend’s shooting outside his birthday party in Virginia Beach, police say the matter is still under investigation and have not name, nor ruled out anyone as a suspect.

Initially, Vick claimed that he left Guadalajara Restaurant long before the shooting occurred. However, security video shows Vick pulling away from the restaurant only three minutes before the crowd can be seen ducking and running from the gunshots.

Restaurant spokesman Allen Fabijan, told the Daily Press, the video is in direct conflict with what Vick’s defense attorney, Larry Woodward, has been telling the media.

Fabijan said that Vick and “his entourage” pulled away from the front of Guadalajara at 2:07 a.m. Three minutes later, shots were fired from the direction in which the cars were traveling.

Fabijan reports: “You can see everybody duck at 2:10...I'm not saying that Michael Vick did the shooting. But he did not leave (long) before” as Woodward says Vick told police.

The shooting left Quanis Phillips, Vick’s co-defendant in the 2007 federal dog fighting case, with a gunshot wound to the leg. In 2007, Phillips took a plea deal, and agreed to testify against Vick, in exchange for a shorter sentence.

Vick is still on federal probation and on a three-year suspended sentence for a state dog fighting conviction. As a condition of his release, he is not allowed to associate with known felons, that would certainly include Quanis Phillips.

Phillips, along with Vick took part not only in the dog fights at Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels but routinely killed dogs by methods including electrocution, hanging, drowning, and in at least one case by “slamming” the dog’s body onto the concrete floor. In one session in April 2007, at least eight dogs were killed through these methods.

 

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