FORT WORTH, Texas -- A former teammate of missing Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy will not talk to police again unless he is ordered to by a judge because of how Waco authorities are handling the case, his attorney said Wednesday.

Carlton Dotson has been questioned once by a Waco detective who went to Virginia Beach, Va., after Dennehy's sport utility vehicle was found in a mall parking lot two weeks ago. Dotson had already returned to his Hurlock, Md., home for the summer.

Waco police have called Dotson a "person of interest" since the contents of an affadavit were released a week ago Monday. According to the court document, an unidentified informant told Delaware authorities that Dotson told a cousin he shot Dennehy in the head as the two argued while shooting guns near Waco.

Dennehy, a 6-foot-10, 230-pound center, has not been heard from since mid-June. No charges have been filed in the case.

Dotson's attorney, Grady Irvin Jr., said he told Waco police in a letter Tuesday to contact him if detectives wanted to interview Dotson. Irvin said the letter was private but that Waco authorities misconstrued it and then told the news media about it.

"I am announcing that my client will now only respond to a duly issued subpoena by an appropriate judge," Irvin, a St. Petersburg, Fla., attorney known for representing athletes, said Wednesday. "We regret having to do this, but it has become clear that authorities in Waco appear to be more concerned with sending out e-mails and press releases to the media and selectively disseminating information that has been intentionally misconstrued."

In a news release issued earlier Wednesday, Waco police spokesman Steve Anderson said Irvin sent a fax to the department indicating that Dotson, through his attorney, was willing to talk to an investigator. Anderson said he did not know when or where the interview would take place.

Anderson did not return calls to The Associated Press on Wednesday afternoon.

Some of Dotson's friends and relatives have said he could not have been involved in Dennehy's disappearance and that the two were close friends. Some of Dennehy's friends have said that he told them he and Dotson were being threatened.

Dennehy's mother, Valorie Brabazon of Carson City, Nev., said when she talked to Baylor coaches after her son disappeared, they told her that he had complained about being stalked. One coach said he had not called authorities because Dennehy didn't mention anyone by name or ask for help, Brabazon said.

"But that's a help-me call. You shouldn't have to say, 'Could you please call the police?' " Brabazon told The Dallas Morning News for a story in Thursday's editions.

Coach Dave Bliss has said his staff knew nothing about the threats.

According to school records, Dotson and Dennehy arrived last summer in Waco, about 100 miles south of Fort Worth, on basketball scholarships. Baylor is the world's largest Baptist university with 14,000 students.

Dotson, a transfer from Paris Junior College in East Texas, was eligible to play. Dennehy, because of NCAA eligibility rules, had to sit out a year after transferring from New Mexico, where he was kicked off the team for losing his temper.

On the basketball court, Dotson's role steadily decreased. By the end of the season, he and Bliss agreed that Dotson should play elsewhere, and his scholarship was dropped.

Dotson, a 6-7 junior, had been staying at Dennehy's apartment since he and his wife of eight months separated in April.

Dennehy's stepfather told The Dallas Morning News that he talked to Dotson after Dennehy disappeared. Brian Brabazon said Dotson told him that he also had been threatened and was so frightened that he fled Texas.

"He told me if he could talk to me in person, he'd let me know everything," Brian Brabazon said. "Well, I can't fly to Maryland. I don't have that money."