{"id":66081,"date":"2026-02-11T18:02:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/former-super-bowl-champion-darron-lee-held-without-bond-after-death-of-girlfriend\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T18:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:02:48","slug":"former-super-bowl-champion-darron-lee-held-without-bond-after-death-of-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/former-super-bowl-champion-darron-lee-held-without-bond-after-death-of-girlfriend\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Super Bowl champion Darron Lee held without bond after death of girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>31-year-old faces first-degree murder charge<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Former linebacker could face death penalty<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Former New York Jets first-round draft pick Darron Lee has been kept in jail without bond as he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/06\/darron-lee-chiefs-jets-murder-charge-nfl\">faces a first-degree murder charge<\/a> over the death of his girlfriend in Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling by Judge Tori Smith came after Lee was arrested and charged late last week. He also faces a charge of tampering with or fabricating evidence. Lee is due back in court for a preliminary hearing on 9 March.<\/p>\n<p> Authorities identified the victim in the case as Gabriella Perp\u00e9tuo. The couple had been living in a home they rented where the incident occurred for about 10 days, Brian Lockhart a detective in Hamilton County Sheriff\u2019s Office testified on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/11\/former-super-bowl-champion-darron-lee-held-without-bond-after-death-of-girlfriend\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>31-year-old faces first-degree murder charge Former linebacker could face death penalty Former New York Jets first-round draft pick Darron Lee has been kept in jail without bond as he faces a first-degree murder charge over the death of his girlfriend in Tennessee. The ruling by Judge Tori Smith came after Lee was arrested and charged &#8230; <a title=\"Former Super Bowl champion Darron Lee held without bond after death of girlfriend\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/former-super-bowl-champion-darron-lee-held-without-bond-after-death-of-girlfriend\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Former Super Bowl champion Darron Lee held without bond after death of girlfriend\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}