KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Former Western Michigan University football player La’Darius Jefferson is being charged with two counts of assault and battery.
According to WOOD-TV 8, court records show the 23-year-old running back Jefferson has been charged with two misdemeanor counts of assault or assault and battery for an incident that happened October 15. According to court documents, Jefferson and a woman assaulted three people walking down Lafayette Avenue near the WMU campus.
Jefferson and the woman were driving in a car. The three victims didn’t move out of the roadway to let them pass, so Jefferson got out of the car and attacked one of the victims by hitting him with a “closed fist” multiple times, court documents allege. It says he ran after the man as he tried to get away, then knocked him to the ground.
Jefferson reportedly struck the victim several more times, then “kicked and stomped on his face while (victim) was laying defenseless on the ground,” records say. Jefferson then allegedly shoved a woman who was trying to intervene.
The victims say the attack was unprovoked. Two of the victims suffered concussions.
Jefferson rushed for four yards in a game in October against Ohio, the same day he is accused of the assaults. He did not play the next week and was suspended indefinitely by former coach Tim Lester October 31 for an off-field incident.
