Captain Munnerlyn Story

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Shortly before the murder, Munnerlyn's mother Evelyn had become a Christian at a funeral; she told Timothy to turn himself in and bear the burden for the crime so his younger brother Gregory -- who was 15 at the time and was with Timothy that night -- would be spared a harsher punishment. Evelyn Munnerlyn knew she had to get Captain out of Mobile's drug-ravaged Happy Hill neighborhood. She vowed the streets wouldn't get her youngest boy, her miracle baby, the one who had been born three months premature, saved from a shooting when he was four and lost his father to a shooting when he was six.

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Today, Evelyn Munnerlyn works at Mount Hebron Church Ministries in Mobile. Gregory Moore eventually spent a year in prison on a robbery charge; he's 36 and is doing prison ministry in Mobile. Timothy will return home in February to live with his mother and work at Grand Glass Windows and Doors, building mahogany doors with his best friend Lewis Snipes, who has known Moore since they were 5 or 6. And Captain Munnerlyn -- now in his seventh NFL season -- doesn't believe he would be here if not for the shooting that led his mother to change her life.

"It changed the whole family," Munnerlyn said. "Most little brothers try to follow their big brother's lead. My brother sold drugs, and did things like that. I'm not happy that somebody lost their life. You never want to see someone lose their loved ones. But it changed my family's life. It helped me get to the situation I'm in now, playing on Sundays."

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