NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – North Charleston Police arrested a former NFL player and graduate of Fort Dorchester High School early Friday morning in connection with a hit-and-run crash that involved four vehicles.
Robert Lee Quinn, 34, is charged with leaving the scene of property damage and reckless driving, jail records state.
An incident report states police responded at approximately 2:04 a.m. Friday to B&N Auto Service where a crash involving a red truck had been reported.
North Charleston firefighters, who also responded to the scene, told police a possible suspect was believed to be in a vehicle attempting to leave the scene. Police arrived shortly after that and spotted a white Dodge Challenger in reverse. The driver of the car told police she had been called by her passenger, later identified as Quinn, for a ride.
The report states Quinn had “visible injuries to his head and hands, with fresh bleeding,” consistent with injuries from a vehicle crash.
Police went to the site of the crash at the opposite side of the parking lot and identified the truck they say started the crash, a maroon Ford F-150, that is registered to Quinn, the report states.
Police say Quinn’s truck struck the passenger side of Honda Element, which pushed into a blue Ford F-150, which struck a purple Chrysler 300.
When police ordered him out of the vehicle, he refused to step out and was pulled out of the vehicle, taken to the ground and placed under arrest, the report states.
Surveillance footage showed Quinn’s vehicle traveling west on Dorchester Road approaching Foxwood Drive at approximately 2 a.m.
“The vehicle passed Foxwood Drive and began veering left, crossing the intersection, then the median, then onto the property of 7791 Dorchester Road (B&N Auto Service),” the report states.
The crash itself happened out of the view of the camera.
He was taken to an area hospital before being booked into the Al Cannon Detention Center.
Quinn was charged in August of 2023 with hit and run, striking a highway fixture and third-degree assault and battery in Summerville when neighbors in the Carrington Chase community, off of Miles Jamison Road, reported they witnessed a driver, who has been identified as Quinn, hit four cars, a gate and a light post.
Quinn was selected in the 14th overall pick in the first round of the NFL draft by the St. Louis Rams in 2011. After playing seven years with the Rams in St. Louis and Los Angeles, he would go on to play with the Miami Dolphins, Dallas Cowboys and Chicago Bears before being traded to the Philadelphia Eagles midway through the 2022 season. Quinn would go on to play in his first Super Bowl after that season.
Now retired, Quinn has 102 sacks in his career, putting him at 36th on the all-time list.
He first made headlines his senior year of high school when he missed most of his final season on the field due to a life-threatening brain tumor in 2007. He would go through surgery and make a full recovery.
He was being held in the Al Cannon Detention Center as of Friday morning.
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