{"id":26990,"date":"2025-05-08T17:15:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T17:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=26990"},"modified":"2025-05-08T17:15:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T17:15:32","slug":"former-raiders-star-whose-gf-went-missing-in-2021-pleads-guilty-to-her-murder-and-receives-30-year-prison-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=26990","title":{"rendered":"Former Raiders Star, Whose GF Went Missing In 2021, Pleads Guilty To Her Murder And Receives 30-Year Prison Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Ware Jr. was taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals Service Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force in 2021 after he went on the run following the disappearance of his former girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>His girlfriend, Taylor Pomaski, was reported missing by family members in May 2021, weeks after she was seen at her own April 25th house party. At the time, the Harris County Sheriff\u2019s Office said she went missing \u201cunder very suspicious circumstances and may be the victim of foul play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses reported a violent fight between the couple during a get-together at his Klein-area home. She disappeared, and Ware stopped showing up for court appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Around that same time, Eric Zuleger, a longtime friend of Pomaski, told ABC13 that before her disappearance, Pomaski had made an outcry for help, saying, \u201cShe was in danger, and she was in trouble. There was violence; she referenced a gun being pulled on her. She was very scared, very nervous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pomaski\u2019s remains were found dumped in a ditch in Harris County in December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to 2025, and Kevin Ware is now being punished for his actions.<\/p>\n<p>Ware has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for brutally murdering his girlfriend and then setting fire to her corpse,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">per<\/a>\u00a0Click 2 Houston. Ware had \u201ccut her with a knife, hit her with a blunt object, strangled her and then burned her corpse,\u201d court documents revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Pomaski\u2019s ex-boyfriend said he believed she was in an abusive and toxic relationship at the time she disappeared.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=reddawg77089&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1920256007470542865&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.totalprosports.com%2Fnfl%2Fformer-raiders-player-whose-gf-went-missing-in-2021-pleads-guilty-to-her-murder-and-receives-30-year-prison-sentence%2F&amp;sessionId=9f1b857b467740796cbb94e92ce4eced9128ea9a&amp;siteScreenName=totalprosports&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1920256007470542865\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Her family is expected to give victim impact statements on Monday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"incontent-ad-3\" class=\"pw-incontent\" data-label=\"Advertisement\"><\/div>\n<p>Before this sentence, Kevin Ware was already set to spend time in prison as he accepted a plea deal in 2022 on possession of cocaine with the intent to deliver and possession of a gun as a felon. Ware was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the charges.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-kevin-ware-had-a-short-stint-in-the-nfl\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kevin Ware Had a Short Stint In The NFL<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1667005\" src=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kevin-ware-jr-1024x512.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kevin-ware-jr-595x298.jpg 595w, https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kevin-ware-jr-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kevin-ware-jr-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kevin-ware-jr-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kevin-ware-jr-2048x1024.jpg 2048w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>On Wednesday, Kevin Ware agreed to a plea bargain and was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the death of 29-year-old Taylor Pomaski.<\/p>\n<p>Ware played football at Klein Oak High School before playing at the University of Washington. He would go undrafted in the 2003\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/\">NFL<\/a>\u00a0Draft, but later that same year he signed with the Washington Redskins.<\/p>\n<div id=\"incontent-ad-4\" class=\"pw-incontent\" data-label=\"Advertisement\"><\/div>\n<p>He played 11 games for them before he was waived in the summer of 2004, and was signed by the\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\/\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a>\u00a0the following month.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, he played just five games for the 49ers before signing with the Oakland Raiders, although he never actually suited up for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Kevin Ware Jr. was taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals Service Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force in 2021 after he went on the run following the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26992,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26990\/revisions\/26992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}