Friend: Missing Player Mentioned Threats

July 2 -- Before he disappeared, a missing Baylor University basketball player was worried about threats made against the roommate accused in a court document of shooting him, a good friend of the missing student told ABCNEWS' Good Morning America.

Patrick Dennehy, a 21-year-old center from Santa Clara, Calif., has been missing for almost three weeks, and although police in Waco, Texas, say it is still a missing person's case, they are handling the investigation as if it were a homicide.

In an exclusive television interview today on Good Morning America, Daniel Okopnyi said he last talked to his friend Dennehy on the phone on June 14. Okopnyi said Carlton Dotson, Dennehy's roommate and teammate, was with Dennehy at the time of the call.

The phone call occurred two days after the last time Dennehy was known to have been seen.

Dennehy said that he and Dotson would attend Okopnyi's birthday party on June 15, but they never showed, the friend said.

Okopnyi said that Dennehy sounded "extremely paranoid" and was worried about threats being made against Dotson, and about his car being broken into and things being stolen a few days earlier.

When he first mentioned the threats, Okopnyi said that Dennehy did not say specifically who he was afraid of, but later in the interview Okopnyi said the missing athlete expressed concerns about two players on the team, including one named "Harvey," a name also mentioned in the affidavit.

Waco police spokesman Steve Anderson said today he did not know if "Harvey" was a reference to Baylor recruit Harvey Thomas, and said he did not know if investigators had spoken to Thomas or considered him a "person of interest."

When Okopnyi asked Dennehy why he was staying in the area if he was afraid, he said the basketball player told him, "I've got Dotty's back."

In an affidavit for a search warrant made public on Monday, a police informant accused Dotson of shooting Dennehy.

Mirrors Previous Threats

Okopnyi's reference to threats mimics the statement Dennehy's girlfriend, Jessica Delarosa, made in the affidavit.