By Zaeem Shaikh
Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice turned himself into authorities and was booked into a DeSoto jail Thursday, more than a week after he was involved in a multivehicle collision in Dallas.
Rice, a former Southern Methodist football player who grew up near Fort Worth, is facing eight charges related to a six-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 75. He admitted to driving a Lamborghini Urus involved in the collision, officials said, which injured four people.
A DeSoto city spokesman told The Dallas Morning News that Rice had bonded out. Dallas police said in a news release sent about 9 p.m. Rice turned himself into Glenn Heights police. Records show his bail was set at $40,000.
Theodore “Teddy” Knox, a current SMU football player, is facing the same charges in connection to the March 30 crash, Dallas police say. He is believed to have been driving a Chevrolet Corvette seen speeding right before the collision. Knox, 21, has been suspended from the team, the university announced Thursday. He is not in custody, Dallas police said Thursday.
Rice and Knox were teammates while playing at SMU in 2022.
Kristin Lowman, a Dallas police spokeswoman, has said the drivers of a Corvette and a Urus were speeding about 6:20 p.m. in the 6600 block of North Central Expressway, between Lovers Lane and University Boulevard, where each lost control. The Lamborghini traveled onto the shoulder and “hit the center median wall, causing a chain reaction collision involving four other vehicles.”
Footage obtained by The News shows the Lamborghini and Corvette trying to pass cars in the left lane before slamming into a white sedan and colliding with multiple vehicles across several lanes of traffic. Rice’s attorney, state Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, said at a news conference last week that the former Richland High School and SMU star told police he was driving the Lamborghini.
West said Thursday evening he has no comment at this time. Dallas-based attorney Deandra Grant confirmed to The News she is representing Knox. She said via email, “we’re fully cooperating with law enforcement.”
After the crash, Rice and four other men were seen on video leaving the scene. Police have said the men didn’t stop to see if anyone needed medical attention or provide any of their information.
Police said the passengers will not face charges. At least three of the victims of the crash have retained counsel.
Rice, who was born in Philadelphia before moving to North Texas, was drafted by the Chiefs after a record-setting career at SMU. He won the Super Bowl with the Chiefs in February.
Breaking news editor Tyler J. Davis and staff writer Calvin Watkins contributed to this report.
This story, originally published in The Dallas Morning News, is reprinted as part of a collaborative partnership between The Dallas Morning News and Texas Metro News. The partnership seeks to boost coverage of Dallas’ communities of color, particularly in southern Dallas.
