DALLAS -- A former National Football League cornerback killed himself with a shotgun as police approached to question him about the death of a woman he had dated, police said.
Floyd Iglehart, 49, who played with the Los Angeles Rams, shot himself once in the head at 8:30 a.m. Saturday while sitting in a van in his driveway, police Sgt. Jerry King said.
Officers had gone to Iglehart's home to question him about the shotgun slaying six hours earlier of Alma Mosley, 43, of Dallas, police said.
Mosley, who lived with two of her four children, was found slain at 2:45 a.m. Saturday in her home..
'All I heard were the two shots and then I saw my mother lying in the hallway,' said one of the victim's daughter's, Chata Mosley, 25.
Mosley said her mother had known Iglehart for several years but broke off the relationship recently.
'He had threatened to kill her last week,' Mosley said. 'She didn't want him anymore, and he didn't want anyone to have her, I guess.'
The Dallas County medical examiner's office ruled Iglehart's death a suicide Saturday. An autopsy was scheduled Sunday on Mosley's body.
Police said both cases were under investigation.
Iglehart, assistant coach at South Oak Cliff High School in Dallas for six years, was drafted in 1957 by the Rams. He played for two years until forced to retire with injuries.
'He was very athletic. He did it all,' Floyd Iglehart III of his father, who lettered in football, basketball and baseball at Wylie College in Marshall, Texas.
Police said they recovered a shotgun from Iglehart's van.
'When he stopped and they attempted to approach (his) van, they heard one shot and that was the one he used on himself,' King said.
Shot removed from both bodies will be examined at a police ballistics lab to determine if they came from the same weapon, a spokesman for the medical examiner's office said.
