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AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) — Austin police arrested the wife of NFL player Earl Thomas after they say she held him at gunpoint when she went to confront him about an affair.

Police responded to a residence in east Austin around 3:41 a.m. on April 13 for a call of a disturbance. Officers found a woman with a knife chasing a shirtless man who was holding a gun around a car. They later identified the woman as Nina Thomas, 30, and the man as Earl Thomas. Thomas, 31, is the star defensive back for the Baltimore Ravens National Football League team.

Earl Thomas told police he was staying at the apartment with a relative, that man’s girlfriend and her friend, with whom Earl said he was in a romantic relationship with, as he “worked on his relationship with his wife,” according to the affidavit.

Nina Thomas told police she and her husband fought and she got suspicious after he left and checked his Snapchat account. That’s when she told police she saw him with another woman. She told police she grabbed Earl’s gun and was going to go the apartment to scare him.

According to the affidavit, Nina admitted she put the gun to Earl’s head with the intent to scare him. She said she removed the magazine, thinking the gun would not fire and admitted to disengaging the safety. Police say when they recovered the gun at the scene there was one bullet in the chamber.

Nina Thomas was arrested and charged with burglary of a residence with intent to commit aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

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INDIANAPOLIS (CBSMiami) – An undocumented immigrant illegally living in the U.S. has been charged in the drunk driving crash that killed a Colts player and his Uber driver early Sunday in Indianapolis.

Manuel Orrego-Savala pleaded not guilty Wednesday morning…one day after he claimed during another court appearance he was not behind the wheel of the pickup truck that killed Indianapolis Colts player Edwin Jackson and Uber driver Jeff Monroe.

“Very difficult couple days talking with both families, talking with our players,” said Colts general manager Chris Ballard.

Police say Orrego-Savala was driving drunk and had a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit when he hit the Uber car that had pulled to the shoulder of Interstate 70.

The 37-year-old was charged Wednesday with leaving the scene of an accident and drunk driving.

Orrego-Savala is an undocumented immigrant with a series of arrests.

In 2005, he pleaded no contest to two drunk driving charges in California.  A year later, he was arrested 3 times for drug possession.

He was deported in 2007….then arrested and deported again in 2009.

He has also used an alias- the name he gave to police when he was arrested after the accident.

His checkered past has made him a target of President Trump, who tweeted: “So disgraceful that a person illegally in our country killed @Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson. This is just one of many such preventable tragedies.”

So disgraceful that a person illegally in our country killed @Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson. This is just one of many such preventable tragedies. We must get the Dems to get tough on the Border, and with illegal immigration, FAST!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 6, 2018

But Jackson’s godfather, who’s serving as the family’s spokesman, says they believe his death should not be politicized.

“They’ve lost a son that brought them joy on a regular basis,” said Daniel Meachum, the Jackson family spokesperson. “Where this gentlemen was from, does not really matter to them. They’re not interested in the politics of it.”

Jackson’s funeral will be held Monday, paid for by the owner of the Colts.

The suspect also faces a federal charge of illegally reentering the country, which carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A man being held in a suspected drunken-driving crash that killed Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson and his Uber driver has been twice deported from the U.S. — a revelation an Indiana congressman said Monday should anger “all Americans.”

Manuel Orrego-Savala, 37, remained jailed Monday but has not been charged in Sunday’s deadly crash along Interstate 70 in Indianapolis. State Police said Monday that he’s a citizen of Guatemala who gave officers a fake name when he was arrested following the pre-dawn crash.

Investigators said he was deported in 2007 and 2009, and was again living illegally in the U.S.

Police said Jackson, who grew up in Atlanta, and Uber driver Jeffrey Monroe, 54, were standing outside Monroe’s car along I-70 after Jackson became ill while Monroe was transporting him for the ride-hailing company.

Both men were struck and killed by a pickup truck driven by Orrego-Savala, police said. Investigators said they believe Orrego-Savala, who lives in Indianapolis, was intoxicated and driving without a license.

A breath test administered at the crash scene found that Orrego-Savala’s blood-alcohol content was 0.239 percent, or nearly three times Indiana’s legal limit of 0.08 percent, according to a probable cause affidavit.

That affidavit, which was filed Sunday under the fake name Manuel Orrego-Savala gave police, also states two vials of blood were drawn from Orrego-Savala by a nurse at a hospital about 90 minutes later and sent for analysis. It said Orrego-Savala has prior run-ins with law enforcement for driving without a valid license and that he was walking away from the crash scene when an Indiana state trooper arrived and detained him.

Republican U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita said Monday in a statement after police released details on Orrego-Savala that “the loss of life at the hands of illegal immigrant criminals should make all Hoosiers sad and ultimately angry.”

He added that the fatal accident highlights the need for building a U.S.-Mexico border wall, “ending sanctuary cities, and stopping illegal immigration once and for all.”

Rokita later tweeted that “this news should make all Americans angry.”

The deaths of Jackson and Monroe come about two months after a California jury acquitted a Mexican man in the fatal July 2015 shooting of a woman on a San Francisco pier — a death that touched off a fierce national immigration debate.

Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, who was found not guilty of murder on Nov. 30 in Kate Steinle’s death, had been deported five times and was wanted for a sixth deportation when she was fatally shot. Garcia Zarate said the shooting was accidental and occurred when picked up a gun wrapped in a T-shirt under a seat on the pier.

During the presidential campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump pointed to Steinle’s death as a reason to build a wall along the Mexican border and tighten immigration policies. As president, he has threatened to withhold federal funding to cities with sanctuary city policies.

Orrego-Savala remained in the Marion County Jail on Monday as the investigation into Sunday’s crash continues. The Marion County Prosecutor’s Office was working with police on “potential criminal charges” in the case, spokeswoman Peg McLeish said.

Jackson, 26, started eight games for the Colts during the 2016 season, finishing third on the team with 61 tackles. He was considered a possible starter at inside linebacker for the 2017 but missed the season after suffering an injury during training camp.

The 6-foot, 234-pound Jackson previously played for the Arizona Cardinals.

The Colts said in a statement Sunday that Jackson “was well-respected among all with whom he crossed paths, and he will be greatly missed in our locker room and throughout our entire organization.”

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GRETNA, La. (AP) — Jurors heard final arguments Friday in the murder trial of the man who killed former NFL running back Joe McKnight, with prosecutors insisting it was an act of road rage and defense attorneys saying the hulking athlete had the shooter fearing for his life.

Ronald Gasser, 56, is charged with second-degree murder. Police say their rolling confrontation began with dangerously aggressive driving on a New Orleans bridge and continued for five miles, until McKnight was fatally shot as he stood outside Gasser’s car at a suburban intersection.

Gasser would face a mandatory life sentence if convicted as charged by the jury that began deliberations Friday afternoon.

With the defense claiming Gasser fired in self-defense, jurors broke from close to three hours of deliberations to ask questions about what constitutes an aggressor under Louisiana law, and for details on the state’s “stand your ground” law.

Prosecutors didn’t deny that McKnight drove dangerously before he was killed.

“We do not dispute that he was driving like a jerk,” Assistant District Attorney Seth Shute said, alluding to witness testimony that McKnight weaved in and out of traffic, cutting Gasser and others off, at high speed.

But Shute said Gasser escalated the danger, taking McKnight’s driving as a challenge.

“Mr. Gasser thought that Mr. McKnight had thrown the gauntlet down,” Shute told jurors. “He followed him off the exit. That was not his exit.”

Shute acknowledged that McKnight had a hand on the open, passenger side window of Gasser’s car before he was shot. But he said physical evidence proved Gasser lied during extensive police questioning when he claimed McKnight lunged at him.

The prosecutor cited the lack of gun powder on McKnight’s body and other autopsy results as evidence that McKnight wasn’t close to Gasser.

“Joe McKnight was not lunging,” he said. “There would be a hole in his deltoid muscle if he was.”

Assistant District Attorney Shannon Swaim summed up the case by telling jurors that Gasser was the aggressor toward the end, and even if he wasn’t, Gasser was not justified in firing.

Swaim gave the final rebuttal after defense lawyer Matthew Goetz insisted that his client, a thin, middle-aged man, felt truly threatened by the 28-year-old athlete, who was 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighed more than 200 pounds. He also noted the drugs in McKnight’s system; prosecutors had acknowledged a small amount of marijuana and a “therapeutic dose level” of Oxycodone.

Goetz also denied that Gasser was pursuing McKnight down the exit; he said it was simply an alternate way home, having been distracted.

He said Gasser did not seek a confrontation at the traffic light where McKnight got out and walked up to Gasser’s passenger window. And he noted that Louisiana law allows the use of lethal force by someone who feels threatened by someone entering his car.

“What do you think he was doing when he went to the window, inviting him to tea?” he asked.

Goetz also chided prosecutors for bringing up another road-rage incident involving Gasser and another man at the same intersection 10 years earlier — a fist fight that led to arrest, but was not prosecuted.

McKnight was considered the nation’s No. 1 running back recruit when he came out of John Curtis Christian School in Louisiana in 2006. He signed with the University of Southern California, where he ran for 2,213 yards and 13 touchdowns and caught 66 passes for 542 yards and two scores in three seasons.

In the NFL, he played three seasons for the New York Jets and one with the Kansas City Chiefs. He spent a season in the Canadian Football League, playing two games for the Edmonton Eskimos and three for the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

He was shot Dec. 1, 2016. Gasser never left the shooting scene, and was freed after more than eight hours of questioning. That release sparked protests by people who noted that Gasser is white and McKnight was black. Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand, who has since retired, angrily denied that race played any role, and recounted a painstaking investigation that included more than 160 interviews.

Arrested on a manslaughter charge four days after the shooting, Gasser was indicted by a grand jury on second-degree murder.

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