According to family members, the father of Green Bay Packers wide receiver Donald Driver was beaten by Houston, Texas, police officers as they arrested him for outstanding traffic warrants.

A family member who was with Marvin Driver Jr. when officers arrested him, say police took him behind a gas station. As they beat him and forced him to swallow something, the officers told Driver he was “going to see Jesus,” according to relatives and community activist Quanell Evans, who identified himself as Quanell X.

A police spokesman released this statement on Thursday: “About 1:30am on Nov. 17, officers placed [Driver] in the back seat of a patrol unit and transported him to our southeast jail… Upon arrival to the jail, our officers stated Mr. Driver was unresponsive.”

Paramedics were contacted and Mr. Driver was transported to a local hospital where he remains in a coma with blunt force trauma injuries.