[USML Announce] Dukin' it out?

[Doug Shabelman]

The wife of Tampa Bay Devil Rays
<http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/clubhouse?team=tam>  rookie outfielder
Elijah Dukes
<http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?statsId=7916>  filed for
a restraining order against her husband and said she fears for her life,
The St. Petersburg Times reported Wednesday.
NiShea Gilbert, a middle-school teacher, said that Dukes allegedly burst
into her classroom at lunchtime in April. A frightened Gilbert then ran
to the principal and got a deputy, who banished Dukes from the school.
Gilbert told a Florida court that Dukes threatened to kill her and sent
her a photo of a handgun to her cell phone.
Gilbert played a voice mail allegedly from Dukes for the newspaper. "You
dead, dawg. I ain't even [expletive]. Your kids, too."
Gilbert has filed requests for protection twice in the last month,
according to the newspaper. A hearing on her latest request is scheduled
for May 30.
"I just don't think I should live in fear," Gilbert told the newspaper.
"When [the Rays] go out of town, I come home. When they're at home, I go
stay with my mother. I shouldn't have to live like that because he's a
baseball player."
When approached by the newspaper before Tuesday night's game, Dukes
declined to comment on Gilbert's allegations.
"I'm just going to play ball, that's it," Dukes told the newspaper.
"I've got to go. I've got a video game to finish."
Dukes is batting .231 in his first major league season with eight home
runs and 13 RBIs.






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