The Associate
Press reports Cole Ford plead guilty to shooting at Siegfried & Roy's
home.
Mr. Ford is a former kicker for the NFL Oakland Raiders who
had fallen into difficult struggles with mental illness and homelessness.
Groomed and polite, a former NFL
kicker who has been hospitalized for mental illness pleaded guilty Thursday to
shooting at the home of entertainers Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn in
2004.
Cole Ford, who last kicked for the
Oakland Raiders in 1997, agreed to a felony plea that could result in a
suspended sentence of one to six years in a Nevada
prison if he continues mental health treatment at a center near his family's
home in Tucson, Ariz.
"We've come a long way with
Mr. Ford, and he's doing terrific," Clark County District Judge Jackie
Glass said as she addressed Ford's mother, Amy Ford, in the courtroom gallery.
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