MILWAUKEE, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Former Wisconsin football player Leonard Taylor has been charged with threatening his former coach, Barry Alvarez, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported.
The newspaper also reported this week that Taylor Jr., 32, of Indianapolis, threatened women's tennis star, Maria Sharapova.
He faces one felony stalking count and one misdemeanor count of telephone harassment involving Alvarez.
"I'll kill you first, mother (expletive)," Taylor allegedly said, the newspaper reported. "I've got 24 (expletive) hours, mother (expletive). I'm coming for your (expletives). You might have a (expletive) war."
The Journal-Sentinel reported his father told police Taylor has been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and a criminal complaint filed in Dane County Circuit Court said Taylor hasn't taken his medication for three months.
The complaint said Taylor left a total of 29 messages threatening Alvarez and Sharapova in a two-day span on Nov. 24-25.
He left messages with the school's athletic department alleging he had not been paid by an unspecified TV network for work he had done.
Taylor was Wisconsin defensive back from 1995-'98.
