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Missing Basketball Player, Teammate had Argument
Aired July 01, 2003 - 07:09 ET
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HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: There is a new development to tell you about in the case of the missing college basketball player. Police investigating the disappearance of Patrick Dennehy are now looking closely at one of his teammates. The teammate is from Hurlock, Maryland.
Our national correspondent, Bob Franken, is there.
Hi -- Bob.
BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Heidi.
And the teammate is Carlton Dotson, who grew up here in Hurlock, Maryland. And that, of course, is why we are here.
It is a very, very flimsy little chain of leads that has led police to be considering whether there is any involvement of Carlton Dotson in this case. Dotson was a member of the Baylor basketball team, although he was not expected to return. He had grown up here. He played his high school basketball here before going to a junior college and then transferring to Baylor.
Now, according to police, police in Waco, Texas, McLennan County, Texas, as a matter of fact, in an effort to get a search warrant, one officer said that a police officer in Seaford, Delaware, which is not far from here, says he talked to a person who had talked to a cousin of Carlton Dotson who says that Dotson told him that he had shot Dennehy when they were out together shooting.
According to this chain of information, the shooting occurred when Dennehy pointed his gun at Dotson, and Dotson fired at him, hitting him in the head. And then, according to this continuing chain of information, Dotson drove toward this area and discarded the weapons along the way. That is the evidence.
We should point out that there have been no charges filed against Dotson. Police have not said that he is a suspect. They do have -- they have said that they think that perhaps a teammate was involved in this.
Police tell me they do not know for sure whether Dotson is in town here. Thus far, we have no information about any action that's going to be taken against him.
Again, this is all very, very, very much a chain of information that has gotten to the police and raised their interest in Dotson.
CNN has made several efforts to contact Dotson to no avail.
So, anyway, the investigation, which of course, centers around Waco, Texas, and the disappeared basketball player, Patrick Dennehy, is now focusing on Hurlock, Maryland, the home of a teammate, Carlton Dotson -- Heidi.
COLLINS: The information, Bob, came from an informant. I'm just wondering, what do we know about the informant at this time?
FRANKEN: Well, the police officer in Delaware said this was a usually reliable informant, but this informant is basing his conversation with somebody else, and it's that somebody who says that a cousin of Dotson's told him that Dotson had told him. And the reason I'm telling it that way is just to give you some idea of how this story has gone around in a circle.
COLLINS: Well, that is definitely the case. All right, Bob Franken, thanks so much.
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Aired July 1, 2003 - 07:09 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: There is a new development to tell you about in the case of the missing college basketball player. Police investigating the disappearance of Patrick Dennehy are now looking closely at one of his teammates. The teammate is from Hurlock, Maryland.
Our national correspondent, Bob Franken, is there.
Hi -- Bob.
BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Heidi.
And the teammate is Carlton Dotson, who grew up here in Hurlock, Maryland. And that, of course, is why we are here.
It is a very, very flimsy little chain of leads that has led police to be considering whether there is any involvement of Carlton Dotson in this case. Dotson was a member of the Baylor basketball team, although he was not expected to return. He had grown up here. He played his high school basketball here before going to a junior college and then transferring to Baylor.
Now, according to police, police in Waco, Texas, McLennan County, Texas, as a matter of fact, in an effort to get a search warrant, one officer said that a police officer in Seaford, Delaware, which is not far from here, says he talked to a person who had talked to a cousin of Carlton Dotson who says that Dotson told him that he had shot Dennehy when they were out together shooting.
According to this chain of information, the shooting occurred when Dennehy pointed his gun at Dotson, and Dotson fired at him, hitting him in the head. And then, according to this continuing chain of information, Dotson drove toward this area and discarded the weapons along the way. That is the evidence.
We should point out that there have been no charges filed against Dotson. Police have not said that he is a suspect. They do have -- they have said that they think that perhaps a teammate was involved in this.
Police tell me they do not know for sure whether Dotson is in town here. Thus far, we have no information about any action that's going to be taken against him.
Again, this is all very, very, very much a chain of information that has gotten to the police and raised their interest in Dotson.
CNN has made several efforts to contact Dotson to no avail.
So, anyway, the investigation, which of course, centers around Waco, Texas, and the disappeared basketball player, Patrick Dennehy, is now focusing on Hurlock, Maryland, the home of a teammate, Carlton Dotson -- Heidi.
COLLINS: The information, Bob, came from an informant. I'm just wondering, what do we know about the informant at this time?
FRANKEN: Well, the police officer in Delaware said this was a usually reliable informant, but this informant is basing his conversation with somebody else, and it's that somebody who says that a cousin of Dotson's told him that Dotson had told him. And the reason I'm telling it that way is just to give you some idea of how this story has gone around in a circle.
COLLINS: Well, that is definitely the case. All right, Bob Franken, thanks so much.
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