Foley says cop who shot him was trying to end his career

SAN DIEGO -- Chargers linebacker Steve Foley told the off-duty police officer who shot him at least three times, "You're trying to end my career, man," according to a sheriff's department report obtained Friday by the Associated Press.

Foley made the comment after he was shot Sept. 3 outside his home, the report written by San Diego Sheriff's Deputy Robert Tockstein said. Tockstein, the first deputy to arrive after the shooting, wrote the report the day of the shooting.

The off-duty Coronado police officer, Aaron Mansker, followed Foley's restored 1971 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme about 30 miles on the freeway on suspicion that the driver was drunk, the report said.

The shooting occurred when Foley got out of his car outside his home in suburban Poway, with the report saying Mansker fired after the 6-foot-4, 265-pound football player reached into his pants with his right hand.

Foley said, "You shot me in the knee," but continued approaching Mansker, who shot at least three more rounds at Foley before the player "went down" and fell unconscious, the report said.

Foley, who had been partying in downtown San Diego, had a blood-alcohol level of 0.233 percent, nearly three times California's legal limit of 0.08 percent.

Mansker has been placed on paid administrative leave.

The 31-year-old Foley will miss the season.

His agent, David Levine, said earlier this week that Foley was hospitalized in fair condition with two gunshot wounds in his lower left leg and one on his thigh. Sheriff's officials have said Foley was shot in the hand.

Levine did not immediately return a phone message Friday.