Waco, Texas ? Carlton Dotson turned to friend Patrick Dennehy several weeks ago after Dotson lost his basketball scholarship at Baylor, his brief marriage fell apart and he needed a place to live, family members said.

“They were friendly teammates and recently had become closer as friends,” Dennehy’s girlfriend, Jessica De La Rosa, said Wednesday.

Dennehy, 21, was reported missing by his family June 19. His car was found last week in a mall parking lot in Virginia Beach, Va., where he had no apparent connections.

Police classify Dotson, believed to be 21, as “a person of interest” in Dennehy’s disappearance.

According to documents, an unnamed informant in Delaware told police that Dotson told a relative he shot Dennehy in the head after they argued while shooting guns on a farm outside Waco.

No body has been found and no one has been arrested.

“It’s very confusing. I’m just going to try to not speculate anymore. I’m going to try to be patient and let these detectives and investigators do their work,” De La Rosa, of Albuquerque, N.M., said. “I could drive myself crazy with everything that’s flying around.”

Authorities said Wednesday they were investigating hundreds of leads received during the past few days.

“Somebody out there knows what happened to him or they know where he is,” Waco police spokesman Steve Anderson said. “We’re hoping that person or persons will call in and give us that good tip.”

A friend, Daniel Okopnyi, said Dennehy was worried about threats to Dotson by two of their teammates. He said when he last talked to Dennehy June 14, he “sounded extremely paranoid.” He said the pair had armed themselves for protection.

Worried, Okopnyi said he urged Dennehy to stay with him in Fort Worth but he refused, saying he had to protect Dotson. “He said, ‘I’ve got Dotty’s back,'” Okopnyi told ABC’s “Good Morning America” Wednesday.

Dennehy then changed his mind, saying June 14 he would come to Fort Worth and bring Dotson, Okopnyi said. That was the last contact anyone publicly has reported having with Dennehy.

Satellite trucks are parked outside the Hurlock Police Department in the Eastern Shore town of Hurlock, Md. There was a media hunt -- but not a police search -- Wednesday for Baylor basketball player Carlton Dotson, who is considered a person of interest by authorities in connection with the disappearance of teammate Patrick Dennehy.