Marshawn Kneeland’s girlfriend shares emotional message ahead of birth of late Cowboys player’s daughter

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Catalina Mancera thanked supporters successful an affectional connection arsenic she celebrated the unborn kid she shares with precocious Dallas Cowboys antiaircraft extremity Marshawn Kneeland.

In November, Texas Department of Public Safety and the Frisco Police Department confirmed that Kneeland died from a self-inflicted gunshot coiled pursuing a constabulary pursuit successful Texas. The 24-year-old recorded his archetypal NFL touchdown conscionable days earlier his death.

Mancera precocious held a babe ablution attended by friends and family. She shared photos from the peculiar lawsuit Monday connected Instagram, writing, "Words can’t explicate however thankful I americium for the radical God has placed successful my life. In specified a hard season, the emotion and enactment surrounding maine person made everything consciousness a small brighter."

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Dallas Cowboys antiaircraft extremity Marshawn Kneeland walks connected the tract during the team's grooming campy astatine River Ridge Playing Fields successful Oxnard, Calif., connected July 25, 2024. (Brandon Sloter/Icon Sportswire)

She continued with a heartfelt thank-you to friends and family, crediting their emotion and prayers with helping transportation her done a hard time.

"I’m truthful grateful for everyone who came retired to observe maine and baby, and adjacent those who couldn’t marque it but inactive showed emotion from afar. I besides privation to convey my household for throwing maine specified a beauteous ablution successful Michigan. I privation to convey some of our families for each the emotion they’ve poured into maine during this time. I’ll ne'er hide the kindness, prayers, and enactment that person carried maine done each of this," the Instagram caption concluded.

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Mancera antecedently said her owed day is successful June.

Dallas Cowboys antiaircraft extremity Marshawn Kneeland walks disconnected the tract aft the crippled against the New Orleans Saints astatine AT&T Stadium successful Arlington, Texas, connected Sept. 15, 2024. (Tim Heitman/Imagn Images)

Kneeland was a second-round prime successful the 2024 NFL Draft and appeared successful 18 games for Dallas.

Police said officers responded to the country connected Nov. 6, 2025, and recovered a conveyance that had crashed adjacent the southbound lanes of a section parkway. Kneeland fled connected foot.

Authorities besides said Kneeland contacted his household via substance connection anterior to his decease to archer them goodbye, constabulary told dispatchers, according to audio obtained and reviewed by People.

Marshawn Kneeland #94 of the Dallas Cowboys rushes the passer during an NFL crippled against the New York Giants astatine AT&T Field successful Arlington, Texas, connected Sept. 14, 2025. (Cooper Neill/Getty Images)

Shortly aft the tragedy, the Cowboys released a statement, saying, "It is with utmost sadness that the Dallas Cowboys stock that Marshawn Kneeland tragically passed distant this morning. Marshawn was a beloved teammate and subordinate of our organization. Our thoughts and prayers regarding Marshawn are with his woman Catalina and his family."

Last year, Cowboys manager Brian Schottenheimer said a assistance money had been created for Kneeland’s daughter.

"We privation to marque definite she is taken attraction of and the babe is taken attraction of for the remainder of their lives—it’s precise important to our guys and to us," Schottenheimer said. "The enactment has been amazing, we’ve started the Marshawn Kneeland Memorial Fund wherever we tin each springiness and enactment Catalina."

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Schottenheimer besides revealed that the squad launched a memorial money honoring Kneeland and supporting Catalina. Schottenheimer besides recalled immoderate of the memories helium shared with the precocious walk rusher.

"Marshawn loved the words ‘one love,’" Schottenheimer explained. "So, we talked a batch astir emotion arsenic we grieve."

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