Football Coach Sought in Alabama

A football coach in Montgomery, Ala., is being sought by police who say he is accused of shooting the boyfriend of his star player's mother because the man pulled the boy from the team.

Police said Timothy Campbell, 32, was shot Tuesday outside the mother's home.

Montgomery police spokesman Lt. Huey Thornton said Campbell had forced the 12-year-old boy to quit the team as punishment for some trouble he had gotten into. Campbell told police the coach confronted him with a gun.

"An argument ensued between the two about this, and it escalated into the suspect actually shooting the victim once in the back," Thornton said. "The coach wanted him to play."

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by William M. Welch, USA TODAY, October 19, 2005.