WACO, Texas (AP) – A handgun was found at an apartment complex where a Baylor basketball player lived, and police are investigating whether it is related to the disappearance of a teammate, authorities said Friday.

Waco police Sgt. Ryan Holt said a maintenance worker at the apartment complex found the gun Thursday and turned it in to police. Holt said detectives are tracking the serial number to see if the gun was one of the weapons purchased by Patrick Dennehy, who has been missing since mid-June, or any of his friends.

The gun was found at apartment complex where Harvey Thomas, who recently transferred from Fredericksburg, Va., to play basketball for Baylor, lived.

According to an affidavit, Dennehy’s girlfriend told police that he had been threatened by a man named Harvey. One of Thomas’ relatives has said that police have questioned him, though basketball coach Dave Bliss has said Thomas is not a suspect and had nothing to do with any threats.

Rory Guajardo, who works for a landscaping company, told Waco television station KWTX that he found the gun when he was mowing and hit a rock. The gun was underneath in a partially buried plastic bag.

Dennehy was last seen in mid-June, and his Chevrolet Tahoe was found abandoned June 25 in a Virginia Beach, Va., parking lot.

On Thursday, former teammate Carlton Dotson went to Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office near his hometown and said he wanted to discuss Dennehy’s disappearance. But at a briefing Friday, Holt played down the development, saying that what Dotson said “is not going to change the course of the investigation at this time.”

Holt said Dotson remains a “person of interest” in the case and said a Waco detective was going to Maryland in the next 24 hours, though he was not sure if the investigator would interview Dotson.

An unidentified informant told Delaware authorities that Dotson told a cousin that he shot Dennehy as the two argued while shooting guns in the Waco area, according to a search warrant affidavit.

Grady Irvin Jr., Dotson’s attorney, released a statement Thursday saying his client “has not slept for several days” and went to authorities voluntarily.

“We are not aware of any wrongdoing which has taken place on his part in relation to the disappearance of Patrick Dennehy,” Irvin said, adding, “It appears that Carlton has opted not to have counsel present.”

Friends have said Dennehy and Dotson obtained guns because they said they had been threatened.

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