Ex-Spartan charged with Illinois murder Thompson admits he threw neighbor from third floor From Starr AND Wire Reports LOMBARD, Ill. — Au- thorities charged a former ichi; State football player with first-degree mur- der for allegedly throwing a_ neighbor to his death from athird- floor apart- ment build- ing balcony in this west- ern Chicago suburb. Hubert “Boo Boo” Thompson, 28, was ordered held at the Du- Page County Jail on $3 mil- lion bond Saturday. He sur- rendered peacefully late Fri- day after holing up in his apartment for nearly seven hours while police SWAT teams surrounded the apart- ment building. Police found James Malo- ne, 66, sprawled on the tt below the balco- ny when they arrived at the scene around 1:45 p.m. CDT. He was pronounced dead way and threw him to his death three stories below. DuPage County State’s Attorney Joseph Birkett told the Daily Herald it was al- leged to have been an unpro- voked act and that Thomp- son’s mental health will be evaluated. A high school All-Amer- ican from Hillsdale, Il, Thompson came to MSU in 1997 but was academi- cally ineligible his first two seasons. He was named the Spartans’ most-improved player for the 1999 season, playing 10 games and start- ing the last four. After being ejected the Citrus Bowl on Jan. 1, 2000, for fighting, he declared himself eligible for the NFL Draft that spring. Thompson went undraft- ed, but the New Orleans Saints signed him a few days after the draft. He was cut after just two days of prac- tice, the Chicago Tribune re- ported. He also played for the Chicago Enforcers of the now-defunct XFL in 2001. Lombard police said they arrested Thompson in No- vember 2003 on domestic battery charges. He pleaded guilty March 4, 2005, and was placed on conditional He also pleaded guilty in July 1998 to disorderly con- duct for his role in a fight outside an East Lansing bar. When Thompson didn’t ful- fill his community. service obligations, he was given eight additional hours, ac- cording to court records, ’