A history of troubles

Adrian Peterson's personal life has featured multiple tragedies and interactions with law enforcement:

• As a 7-year-old, he watched a drunken driver strike and kill his brother Brian, then 9, who was riding a bicycle.

• Peterson's father, Nelson, spent almost seven years in prison for laundering drug money from selling crack cocaine.

• A half-brother of Peterson's, Chris Paris, was shot and killed in Houston the night before Peterson attended the NFL combine in 2007.

• In July 2012, Peterson was charged with resisting arrest outside a nightclub in Houston, not far from his offseason home. Peterson and his lawyer, Rusty Hardin, disputed the Houston police's version of events, and a grand jury declined to indict him.

• Last October, Tyrese Ruffin, a 2-year-old son Peterson did not know about until a few months before, was killed in Sioux Falls, S.D. Joseph Robert Patterson, the boyfriend of Ruffin's mother, awaits trial for murder next month.

• Saturday morning, Peterson surrendered to Montgomery County, Texas, authorities after being charged with child abuse.

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