{"id":31390,"date":"2022-06-01T01:32:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T01:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jeff-gladney-died-alongside-girlfriend-andrea-mercedes-palacios\/"},"modified":"2022-06-01T01:32:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T01:32:07","slug":"jeff-gladney-died-alongside-girlfriend-andrea-mercedes-palacios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jeff-gladney-died-alongside-girlfriend-andrea-mercedes-palacios\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Gladney died alongside girlfriend Andrea Mercedes Palacios"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Andrea Mercedes Palacios, the girlfriend of Jeff Gladney, has been identified as the woman who died alongside the Arizona Cardinals defensive back in a car accident Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Palacios has been identified by both her family and the Dallas County police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was just a loving, selfless person,\u201d Palacios&#8217; brother, John Paul Figueroa, told NBC Dallas Fort-Worth.  &#8220;Just outgoing.  I know she loved Jeff because they were always together. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Gladney and Palacios died early Monday morning after a two-car accident on the Woodall Rodgers Freeway in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that a white vehicle &#8211; containing Gladney and Palacios &#8211; sped and clipped a car from behind.  Subsequently, the white vehicle lost control and hit a freeway pier beam.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear which of the two was driving.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Jeff Gladney was a first-round pick by the Vikings in the 2020 NFL Draft.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1022\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-31-at-8.24.16-PM.png?resize=1022%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Andrea Mercedes Palacios\" class=\"wp-image-22482068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-31-at-8.24.16-PM.png?resize=1022%2C1024&#038;ssl=1 1022w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-31-at-8.24.16-PM.png?w=511 511w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-31-at-8.24.16-PM.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1022px) 100vw, 1022px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Andrea Mercedes Palacios, the girlfriend of Jeff Gladney, also was killed in Monday&#8217;s car crash.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Facebook<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Passengers in the second car were not seriously injured. <\/p>\n<p>Gladney, who played in college at TCU, was a first-round pick for the Minnesota Vikings in the 2020 NFL Draft.  He was released by the team after being accused of \u201cintentionally, knowingly and recklessly\u201d applying pressure to an ex-girlfriend&#8217;s neck and throat. <\/p>\n<p>He was found unanimously not guilty by a Texas court and signed with the Cardinals this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Sharonda Francois, Gladney&#8217;s cousin, told WFAA that the defensive back had recently purchased a house for his mother.  She also said that Gladney has a son who just turned a year old in February. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe really loved his son, a lot of young guys are really not into being parents &#8211; but he really loved him,\u201d Francois said.  \u201cHe hosted football camps, he took care of our kids at family gatherings.  I mean money did not change him, he was still the same down to earth cousin.  He was just so well-loved. &#8220;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea Mercedes Palacios, the girlfriend of Jeff Gladney, has been identified as the woman who died alongside the Arizona Cardinals defensive back in a car accident Monday morning. Palacios has been identified by both her family and the Dallas County police. \u201cShe was just a loving, selfless person,\u201d Palacios&#8217; brother, John Paul Figueroa, told NBC &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jeff-gladney-died-alongside-girlfriend-andrea-mercedes-palacios\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jeff Gladney died alongside girlfriend Andrea Mercedes Palacios<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[218,14042,446,2376,307,295],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/gladney-gf.png?ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/gladney-gf.png?w=1024","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}