Left: Donte Haddock as a Humboldt State defensive back and criminology major. Right: Haddock mugshot released by San Diego County law enforcement this morning.

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One of the men arrested in the San Diego gang murder case we wrote about earlier today was 25-year-old Donte Jerome Haddock, who, it turns out, is a former Humboldt State student and a defensive back for the HSU Lumberjacks football team.

Haddock was arrested Wednesday in Las Vegas, in a raid that took place at the same time as the one in Arcata that morning. Today he was named one of the three suspects in the May 5, 2013, murder of 22-year-old Xusha Brown Jr. in the San Diego suburb of La Mesa. 

A post on the website of the Southwestern Jaguars — a community college team where Haddock played prior to coming to HSU — says that he transferred here in the spring semester of 2013 and graduated in May 2015. If that timeline is correct, he would have been in attending HSU at the time of Brown’s murder. (UPDATE: Humboldt State’s records show that he matriculated in Fall 2013, placing him at Humboldt in the semester following the murder.)

A prosecutor at the press conference in La Mesa this morning mentioned that local law enforcement is investigating two other murders, dating back to 2011, that are believed to have resulted from the same gang feud that they believe inspired the attack on the driver of a car that Brown was riding in. Brown himself was not a gang member.

In a brief video posted to the HSU Jacks’ YouTube account in the fall of 2013, Haddock told the camera that he was majoring in criminology.

Donte Haddock highlights in a game against Western Oregon, via hudl.com.