Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Police: Philadelphia Eagles QB Michael Vick answers questions about shooting

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- Virginia Beach police say Michael Vick has been interviewed about a shooting that took place outside a nightclub where he had celebrated his birthday.

Police spokesman Adam Bernstein said the Philadelphia Eagles' quarterback answered questions at police headquarters Monday afternoon. He said Vick is not a suspect, and no arrest has been made.

Vick's attorney, Lawrence H. Woodward Jr., gave no specifics of the conversation, according to The Virginian-Pilot newspaper.

"Michael voluntarily cooperated with the investigation, went in on his own and answered all the police detective's questions," Woodward said Monday, according to The Virginian-Pilot.

Authorities have not identified the man who was wounded in the shooting just after 2 a.m. Friday. Several news outlets identified him as Quanis Phillips, one of the co-defendants in the dogfighting case that landed Vick in federal prison for 18 months. A hospital spokesman said Phillips was discharged Friday afternoon.

According to Bernstein, the Virginia Beach police received a 911 call from a cell phone at 2:11 a.m. ET on Friday. An unnamed person reported hearing a verbal dispute and a subsequent gunshot in Virginia Beach's Town Center section.

Vick was prohibited from associating with Phillips, who is on federal probation along with Vick stemming from felony dogfighting convictions, as a condition of his release on probation.

Woodward said Phillips was removed from the restaurant where Vick was celebrating his birthday. Vick then left before the shooting occurred.

On Friday, police said that Vick is "of no interest to us" as police investigate, the Philadelphia Daily News reported.

An NFL spokesman said Monday the league is looking into the shooting.



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