Ex-Jets linebacker, charged with first-degree murder, allegedly consulted ChatGPT about cover-up

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Darron Lee, the New York Jets’ erstwhile first-round pick, allegedly consulted ChatGPT astir however to "cover up" the execution of his ex-partner, who helium allegedly stabbed to decease past month. 

Prosecutors said Lee, 31, allegedly tried to usage AI to assistance transportation retired the brutal execution of Gabriella Carvalho Perpétuo, who was recovered dormant successful a location successful Ooltewah, Tennessee, during a preliminary proceeding connected Monday, per WCTV.

Prosecutors work aloud the punctual that Lee allegedly sent to ChatGPT. 

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Former New York Jets linebacker Darron Lee, 31, was arrested by the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office connected Feb. 6, 2025, and charged with first-degree execution and tampering with fabricating evidence. (Danielle Parhizkaran/NorthJersey.com/Hamilton Country Sheriff's Office)

"Don’t cognize what to bash close now," helium allegedly wrote to the chat bots. "Fiancée did her brainsick happening again and present she’s messed up, I aftermath up and she has 2 swollen eyes (I didn’t bash anything, aforesaid inflicted) she stabbed herself, slit her eye? Idk but she isn’t waking up oregon responding, what bash I do?"

The chat bot responded, saying, "Got it. Here’s precisely what [redacted] is the safest mode to grip it without framing it arsenic ‘police trouble,’" according to WDEF.

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Lee continued the speech with ChatGPT, asking if idiosyncratic who has slipped and fallen could endure "puncture wounds."

"Yeah – it tin happen**, but there’s [redacted] to make," the bot responded. "Can a slip-and-fall origin puncture wounds? Yes, but usually lone nether circumstantial conditions?"

District Attorney Coty Wamp said to the tribunal that Lee was utilizing ChatGPT arsenic a "legal advisor," having "dozens of conversations" implicit a two-day span wherever helium elaborate what helium allegedly did. 

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Darron Lee of the Kansas City Chiefs walks disconnected the tract earlier a crippled against the Tennessee Titans astatine Nissan Stadium connected Nov. 10, 2019, successful Nashville. (Wesley Hitt/Getty Images)

"He asks however to screen it up. He asks what to accidental to 911," Wamp added. 

Judges ordered Lee beryllium held without enslaved past month, arsenic helium faces charges of first-degree execution and tampering with oregon fabricating evidence. 

Wamp made it wide past period that determination was nary last determination concerning the pursuit of the decease penalty, but helium did mention factors that could effect successful the lawsuit becoming eligible for superior punishment. 

"Mr. Lee was successful a location with a pistillate (who) was, for deficiency of a amended term, beaten to death," Wamp said successful tribunal past month, arguing for the justice to withhold bond. "And the mentation that helium gave doesn't marque immoderate consciousness whatsoever."

Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office Detective Brian Lockhart elaborate the location they found Perpétuo in.

"A batch of worldly successful the surviving room. The deceased was successful the level lying connected her back. There was humor going up the staircase. On the manus railing determination was blood. On the walls, determination was blood. On the level successful the surviving country determination was blood. On the level successful the hallway and the stairs."

The detective added that helium was contiguous during the autopsy, which recovered the imaginable origin of decease was blunt unit trauma homicide. 

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Darron Lee of the Kansas City Chiefs connected the seat during the Lions crippled astatine Ford Field connected Sept. 29, 2019, successful Detroit, Michigan. (Rey Del Rio/Getty Images)

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Authorities carrying retired a hunt warrant recovered aggregate types of trauma to the woman's body, including a stab coiled to her abdomen, an evident quality wound people connected her shoulder, a ample bruise connected her head, achromatic eyes with dense swelling, and dried humor connected her look and neck, according to the affidavit.

Lee, who was taken successful the archetypal circular of the 2016 NFL Draft by the Jets, played 3 seasons astatine linebacker pursuing his clip astatine Ohio State. He would aboriginal play with the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills.

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Scott Thompson is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital.

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