The Jackson County Medical Examiner report on Belcher, 25, raised new questions about whether police should have done more before the Dec. 1 murder-suicide. Officers found Belcher sleeping in his idling car about five hours earlier, but let him go inside a nearby apartment to sleep it off.

At the time of the autopsy, Belcher’s BAC was 0.17, more than twice the limit of 0.08 percent for Missouri drivers, and it was likely higher when he shot girlfriend Kasandra Perkins, 22, at the couple’s Kansas City home.

A police report released previously said Belcher had gone out the night before with a woman he was dating on the side while Perkins attended a concert with her friends.

Police who found Belcher sleeping in his Bentley outside the woman’s apartment told him to turn off the ignition and he complied, the report said.

The report said Belcher “initially displayed possible signs of being under the influence (asleep and disoriented).” But the report added that after a few minutes of being awake his “demeanor and communication became more fluid and coherent.” The report added that officers didn’t smell alcohol on Belcher, and that there were no signs of him being “violent or emotionally unstable.”

Under both city ordinance and state law, it is illegal to operate a motor vehicle while intoxicated, city prosecutor Lowell C. Gard said in an email. He said a vehicle doesn’t need to be in motion for it to be determined that the person behind the wheel was operating it.

“Operation has been defined in Missouri courts to include a wide range of activity, including sitting behind the wheel of a parked car with the engine running, and sitting alone behind the wheel of a parked car with a warm, but shut off, engine,” Gard wrote. “However, problems of proof arise when the arresting officer must provide evidence of that operation contemporaneous with intoxication.”

Kansas City police Sgt. Marisa Barnes said in an email she wasn’t aware of anyone being disciplined over the case. Even if they were, she said, she wouldn’t be able to discuss it.

Belcher asked the officers who found him if he could stay inside the apartment for the night. Belcher tried to call his girlfriend, but she didn’t discover the missed calls until the next morning. Two women who were up late invited Belcher to wait inside their nearby apartment after he explained his plight. They said Belcher “appeared to be intoxicated” but “seemed to be in good spirits,” the police report said.

Belcher slept on their couch for a couple hours, leaving at 6:45 a.m. so he could make it to a team meeting planned for later that morning.

Upon arriving at the home he shared with Perkins, the couple began arguing. Belcher’s mother, Cheryl Shepherd, who had moved in with them about two weeks earlier, heard multiple gunshots and ran to the bedroom, where she saw Belcher kneeling next to Perkins’ body, saying he was sorry. The autopsy report says Perkins was shot in the neck, chest, abdomen, hip, back, leg and hand.

After kissing Perkins, his baby daughter and his mother, Belcher drove to Arrowhead Stadium. The autopsy said Belcher shot himself in the right temple as coach Romeo Crennel and general manager Scott Pioli looked on.

The infant, Zoe, is the subject of a custody fight between relatives of Belcher and Perkins.

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“Obviously when you break team rules there’s a certain amount of trust that has been broken, and that will be addressed with further discipline,” Brown said in a statement. “That discipline will be handled within the team.”

McCoy, a senior quarterback, and Hicks, a junior linebacker, were both suspended from the team the day before the Valero Alamo Bowl for reasons that Brown declined to specify. The suspensions followed a KENS-TV report that two unidentified Texas players were being investigated for sexual assault.

According to a heavily redacted police report, the event occurred in the early morning of Dec. 28 when a 21-year-old woman invited two men to her hotel room. The report showed only that the men are students and that one is 21 and the other is 20. The woman told police that she had several drinks at a nightclub and the hotel bar before she invited the men to her room.

“I don’t exactly remember,” she said, according to the report.

The woman said one of the men had sex with her while the other “just stood there and watched,” the report states.

“I don’t quite remember,” she repeated, according to the report.

Perry Minton, Hicks’ attorney, later acknowledged his client was one of the accused but denied Hicks’ involvement in a sexual assault.

“Mr. Hicks vehemently asserts that all conduct that occurred during the evening of the incident was consensual by everyone involved,” his lawyer said in a Dec. 30 statement. “The allegation, if any, that a sexual assault occurred by anyone at anytime is completely false.”

Last week, Minton said the case against his client had been closed and that Hicks would be returning to school. An hour later, the San Antonio police issued a statement that the case was not closed.

“In light of the media inquiries into the allegation of a sexual assault that took place in the early morning hours on December 28, 2012, in the downtown area, the San Antonio Police Department’s SVU (Special Victims Unit) is still reviewing the case,” police officials said in a released statement.

Hicks missed 10 games this past season due to a hip injury. McCoy played in six games with one start. He was 54 of 76 with three interceptions and six touchdowns.

Hicks is projected to be a starting linebacker next season. McCoy will contend for the starting spot with four other quarterbacks.

Also Sunday night, Texas announced that three junior backups have elected to give up their remaining eligibility and focus on their futures after football.

Offensive lineman Thomas Ashcraft, defensive tackle Kyle Kriegel and tight end Trey Graham will not play for the Longhorns in 2013. All three were members of Texas’ No. 3-ranked recruiting class of 2009.

Ashcraft, an Under Armour All-American ranked No. 5 among guard prospects out of Cedar Hill (Texas), appeared in 35 games as a reserve lineman and on special teams.

Kriegel appeared in five games in 2012 as a backup. Graham never played in a game after right knee injuries cost him two full seasons.

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